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Gloria Frym

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Gloria Frym

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
Brooklyn, New York
Nationality
United States
Languages
English
Residence History
Brooklyn (birth) → Los Angeles (grew up) → San Francisco (residence/work)

Career

Occupations
poet, fiction writer, essayist, professor
Active Years
1979-
Affiliations
California College of the Arts (professor, emerita), New College of California (core faculty), San Francisco State University (instructor), Naropa University (guest faculty, Summer Writing Program)
Influenced By
Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan

Education

University of New Mexico
Degree: BA, MA
Country: United States
Studied with poet Robert Creeley.

Awards

American Book Award
2002
Work: Homeless at Home
Organization: Before Columbus Foundation
Result: 受賞
San Francisco State University Poetry Center Book Award
Organization: San Francisco State University
Result: 受賞
California Arts Council grant
Organization: California Arts Council
Result: 受領
Walter and Elise Haas Creative Work Fund grant
Organization: Walter and Elise Haas Creative Work Fund
Result: 受領
Fund for Poetry Award
Organization: Fund for Poetry
Result: 受賞
Fund for Poetry Award
Organization: Fund for Poetry
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Lies More Lies

2025 poetry

A recent poetry collection blending experimental language-poetry elements and fragmented narrative.

languagememoryidentity

How Proust Ruined My Life & Other Essays

2020 essays

A collection of essays on literature and reading, exploring personal and critical engagements with writers such as Proust.

readingliterary criticismself and other

The True Patriot

2015 fiction/poetry

Work concerning patriotism and public life, characterized by cross-genre prose and poetic narration.

politicspublicnesslanguage

Homeless at Home

2001 poetry

Award-winning poetry collection addressing home, homelessness, and questions of belonging.

homealienationplace

Distance No Object

1999 poetry/experimental prose

A collection featuring experiments with language and form, published by City Lights.

language experimentsform

How I Learned

1992 poetry/prose

A poetry collection with self-exploratory elements that received critical attention.

learningself

Bibliography

  • Lies More Lies
  • How Proust Ruined My Life & Other Essays
  • The True Patriot
  • The Stage Stop Motel
  • Mind Over Matter
  • Any Time Soon
  • The Lost Sappho Poems
  • Solution Simulacra
  • Homeless at Home
  • Distance No Object
  • How I Learned
  • By Ear
  • Three Counts
  • Back to Forth
  • Second Stories: Interviews with Women Artists
  • Impossible Affection

Adaptations

  • Addison Street Poetry Walk (public poetry installation)
  • Way Bay Wall (public installation at Berkeley Art Museum)
  • The War is Going Well (poem, Berkeley Art Museum installation)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
A style mixing prose-poetry and experimental language-poetry elementsFragmentary expression that crosses boundaries between narration and poetry
Recurring Motifs
languagememoryplace/belongingidentity

Legacy

Gloria Frym is recognized as a writer and educator who crosses poetry and experimental prose. An American Book Award winner (2002), she has had significant impact on the San Francisco poetry community and on creative writing education.

Museums

  • Berkeley Art Museum (Way Bay Wall installation) Berkeley, California, United States Opened in 2017
  • Addison Street Poetry Walk Addison Street, Berkeley, California, United States Opened in 2003

Archives

  • Papers of Gloria Frym (UC San Diego, Mandeville Special Collections)

In Popular Culture

  • Works included in local poetry walks and public poetry installations

Trivia

  • Born in Brooklyn and grew up in Los Angeles.
  • Earned BA and MA at the University of New Mexico and studied with Robert Creeley.
  • Taught at San Francisco State University, New College of California, and is Professor Emerita at California College of the Arts.
  • Won the 2002 American Book Award for Homeless at Home.