Santee Frazier is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He holds a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. He is the recipient of various awards including The Truman Capote Scholarship and a Syracuse University Fellowship. His poems have appeared in American Poet, Narrative Magazine, Ontario Review, and various […]
Santee Frazier talks about the genesis of his poem “Eating Against a Wall.”
Mama tucked the coffee can between her wrist and hip and walked down Dry Creek Road. Her eyes lined-up, blush and lipstick, her Levi shorts cut above the thigh. And what it was to see those farmers cutting down wheat, side-glancing mama, barefoot and brown. Sometimes it’s flour, sometimes money when she empties the can. […]
I studied every ride on the midway— watched them groan, twirling light into blur, the Ferris wheel’s last passengers pointing out from their seats to town’s end. These monuments that have risen […]
A row of glistening kids stood under the pool lamp, gazing through the fence links as one of the witnesses, beer coolie in hand flyswatter in the other, reported to the cops that guilty boys had scattered. I saw them, belly first, feet slapping the sidewalk running through the breezeway. And when the cops, […]
She rolled out the bamboo mat near a brick wall as her husband hoisted a gallon milk jug to his lips […]
The city ends here. Dim-lit shacks on the grid, in the feinting light of evening a mother and son stand out on the sidewalk, where […]
Santee Frazier talks about determining the form a poem will take.