Gregory Fraser , a professor in the Department of English at the University of West Georgia, is the author of two previous poetry collections, Answering the Ruins (Northwestern, 2009) and Strange Pietà (2003). He is also the coauthor, with Chad Davidson, of the textbooks Writing Poetry (2009) and Analyze Anything (2012).

Other poems by Gregory Fraser in Verse Daily:
May 3, 2011:   "Epithalamium" "They will say you go together like a lid..."
March 22, 2011:   "Ficus" "The morning you left, I pretended..."
June 21, 2003:  "End of Days" "There are those who swear it will start with the sun..."

Books by Gregory Fraser:

Other poems on the web by Gregory Fraser:
"Spitting Image"

Gregory Fraser's Website.

About Designed for Flight:

"Gregory Fraser is the best in the business when it comes to writing funny, rueful poems about escaping life in a town with "one high school, one hospital, and one moon," about partying so hard in college that when he recalls his fellow celebrants, he says "her name was Judy, his, Eric / I can't remember mine." Yet even in his older, wiser poems, the ones packed with experience and insight, his longing look back at youth's "candied falsehoods" will make you smile as well, make you, too, want to be young and stupid again and eager for everything the world has to offer."
—David Kirby

"Gregory Fraser's third book, mostly turned away from good times and settled affairs, is not only his best, it is altogether free of acknowledged necessities like almost perfect or even greatly improved-this is an idiom past comparisons. Vocabulary, movement and aplomb are by now the work of a master not sure or even assured. What astonishes the reader is that the poems are not confident or even hopeful, but correct, obviously true."
—Richard Howard

"With his seemingly inexhaustible fountain of metaphors, an openness to offbeat couplings, a fine ear, a rich and supple language, and a penetrating psychological acuity - right to the place it hurts, Greg Fraser's poems refresh vision, revealing not only how the past shadows bright hopes, but also how, as Blake said, 'the eye altering, alters all.'"
—Eleanor Wilner