WORD THURSDAYS FEATURING FOX FRAZIER AND MARTIN WILLITS JR.

FOX FRAZIER

Fox Henry Frazier is the author of two books of poetry, essay, and visual art: Weeping in the Tropical Moonlit Night Because Nobody’s Told Her (Yes Poetry, 2022) and Raven King (Yes Poetry, 2021). Her first full-length book of poetry, The Hydromantic Histories (Bright Hill Press, 2015), was selected by Vermont Poet Laureate Chard deNiord as the recipient of the Bright Hill Press Poetry Award. Her chapbook Exodus in X Minor (2014) won the Sundress Publications Chapbook Prize, and her chapbook Like Ash in the Air After Something Has Burned (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2017) was nominated for an Elgin Award. Fox holds an MFA from Columbia University and a PhD from the University of Southern California, where she was also a Provost’s Fellow. She created and co-runs the small press Agape Editions, the arts & literary magazine Alice Says Go Fuck Yourself, and the Favorite Poems reading series. Fox lives in upstate New York with her daughter, her dogs, her gardens, and her ghosts.

MARTIN WILLITS JR.

Martin Willitts Jr is a retired Librarian living in Syracuse, New York. He was nominated for 17 Pushcart and 13 Best of the Net awards. Winner of the 2012 Big River Poetry Review’s William K. Hathaway Award; 2013 Bill Holm Witness Poetry Contest; 2013 “Trees” Poetry Contest; 2014 Broadsided award; 2014 Dylan Thomas International Poetry Contest; Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, June 2015, Editor’s Choice; Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, Artist’s Choice, November 2016, Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize, 2018; Editor’s Choice, Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, December, 2020; 17th Annual Sejong Writing Competition, 2022.

His 24 chapbooks include National Chapbook Contest winning William Blake, Not Blessed Angel But Restless Man (Red Ochre Press, 2014) and Turtle Island Editor’s Choice Award for his chapbook, The Wire Fence Holding Back the World (Flowstone Press, 2016).

His 22 full-length books include National Ecological Award winner for Searching for What You Cannot See (Hiraeth Press, 2013); Irises, the Lightning Conductor For Van Gogh’s Illness (Aldrich Press, 2014); God Is Not Amused with What You Are Doing in Her Name (Aldrich Press, 2015); How to Be Silent (FutureCycle Press, 2016); Dylan Thomas and the Writer’s Shed (FutureCycle Press, 2017); Three Ages of Women (Deerbrook Editions, 2017);  The Uncertain Lover (Dos Madres Press, 2018); Home Coming Celebration (FutureCycle Press, 2019); 2019 Blue Light Award winner The Temporary World; Unfolding of Love (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020); Harvest Time (Deerbrook Editions, 2021); All Wars Are the Same War (FutureCycle Press, 2022); and, Not Only the Extraordinary are Exiting the Dream World (Flowstone Press, 2022). Forthcoming books include Ethereal Flowers (Still Point Press, 2023), Rain Followed Me Home (Glass Lyre Press, 2023), Leaving Nothing Behind (Fernwood Press, 2023).

He is an editor for Comstock Review, and a judge for the New York State Fair Poetry Contest.

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