Chapman Frazier

fastanimalChapman Frazier is a Professor at James Madison University and has been poetry editor for the Dos Passos Review University, and guest editor for The Hampden Sydney Poetry Review. He has published poetry and prose in The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, Shenandoah, College English, The English Journal, The Cincinnati Poetry Review  and The South Carolina Review and has won several awards. He is currently working on a collection of interviews with contemporary poets from the U. S. and Northern Ireland, titled First Word, Last Word: Conversations with Contemporary Poets. Frazier lives in Rice, VA with his wife, Deborah Carrington, and they are currently initiating a progressive, holistic educational program in Southside Virginia.

A Conversation with Tim Seibles

Late Shift Places— maybe dreams from which I cannot return: the velvet touch of Her lips, first light fingering a cup: sacred dislocations of mind— the way the right sound becomes visible. Where I am now it’s later— the clocks … Continue reading