Chapman 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.
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 →