Michael Frazier

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Michael Frazier is a poet and educator living in central Japan. His poems appear in Poetry Daily, The Offing, Cream City Review, Tokyo Poetry Journal, Visible Poetry Project, and elsewhere. Frazier’s poetry has been honored with Tinderbox’s 2020 Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, honorable mentions for both RHINO’s Editor’s Prize & COUNTERCLOCK’s Emerging Writer Award, and Pushcart Prize / Best New Poets nominations. His writing has been graciously supported by Cave Canem / EcoTheo Collective, Bread Loaf, Callaloo, The Watering Hole, The Seventh Wave, and Brooklyn Poets. He facilitates a biweekly zoom poetry book club open to the public. In 2022 he served as a Poetry Foundation Library Forms & Features Visiting Teaching Artist.

Poems by Michael Frazier

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says,
Michael Receives Advice from Marceline the Vampire, the Queen of the Deadbeat Daddy Issues, on How to Cope with an Absent Father
What the Moon Said to Michael

Michael Frazier

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says,

Michael Receives Advice from Marceline the Vampire, the Queen of the Deadbeat Daddy Issues, on How to Cope with an Absent Father

What the Moon Said to Michael

It’s Not a Mask If You Wear It Right

Pecha Kucha, Low Coup, Hyperbolic Time Chamber

Writing Prompt: Persona

At Church, I Tell My Mom She’s Singing Off-Key and She Says,

Michael Receives Advice from Marceline the Vampire, the Queen of the Deadbeat Daddy Issues, on How to Cope with an Absent Father

What the Moon Said to Michael