Frank X Walker
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Frank X Walker is an American poet.
Life
Frank X Walker is a native of Danville, Kentucky, a graduate of the University of Kentucky, and completed an MFA in Writing at Spalding University in May 2003.
He has lectured, conducted workshops, read poetry and exhibited at over 300 national conferences and universities including the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry, Northern Ireland; Santiago, Cuba; University of California at Berkeley; Notre Dame; Louisiana State University at Alexandria; University of Washington; Virginia Tech; Radford University; and Appalachian State University, Old Dominion University,[1] and Emory and Henry College.[2]
A founding member of the Affrilachian Poets,[3] and is the proud editor and publisher of PLUCK!, the new Journal of Affrilachian Art & Culture.[4]
Walker's poems have been converted into a stage production by the University of Kentucky Theatre department.[5]
His poems are anthologized in The Appalachian Journal,[6] Limestone, Roundtable, My Brothers Keeper, Spirit and Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art.
Other new work appeared recently in Mischief, Caprice & Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen Press), Tobacco (Kentucky Writers Coalition), Kentucky Christmas (University Press of Kentucky), Cornbread Nation III, Kudzu, The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass (University Press of Kentucky) and the Louisville Review.
His visual art is in the private collections of Spike Lee, Opal Palmer Adisa, Morris FX Jeff, and Bill and Camille Cosby.
Walker has served as founder/Executive Director of the Bluegrass Black Arts Consortium, the Program Coordinator of the University of Kentucky's King Cultural Center, and the Assistant Director of Purdue University's Black Cultural Center.
Walker regularly teaches in writing programs like Fishtrap in Oregon and SplitRock at the University of Minnesota.
He currently serves as the Writer in Residence and lecturer of English at Northern Kentucky University.
Awards
- Winner of the 35th Annual Lillian Smith Book Award, 2004[7]
- 2006 Thomas D. Clark Literary Award for Excellence, Actors Theatre's Keeper of the Chronicle Award
- 2005 Recipient of a $75,000 Lannan Literary Fellowship in Poetry.[8]
- A Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship recipient
Work
Poetry
- When Winter Come: the Ascension of York. University Press of Kentucky. 2008. ISBN 9780813191843.
- Black Box. Old Cove Press. 2005. ISBN 0967542413.
- Buffalo Dance: the Journey of York. University Press of Kentucky. 2003. ISBN 0813190886.
- Affrilachia. Old Cove Press. 2000. ISBN 0967542405.
Essay
- This I Believe. Macmillan. 2006. ISBN 9780805080872.
Editor
- America! What's My Name? The "Other Poets" Unfurl the Flag, (Wind Publications, 2007) ISBN 1893239632
- Eclipsing a Nappy New Millennium,
Video
- Writing: Getting Ideas on Paper, PBS's GED Connection Series
- In Performance At the Governor's Mansion
- Living the Story: The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky.
Video Producer
- Coal Black Voices: the History of the Affrilachian Poets, which received the 2002-2003 Jesse Stuart Award presented by the Kentucky School Media Association
- KY2NYC: Art/life & 9.11, exploring the effects of 9.11 on the arts community.
References
- ^ http://www.lib.odu.edu/litfest/29th/walker.htm
- ^ http://www.ehc.edu/litfest/
- ^ An American vein. Ohio University Press. 2005. p. 315-317. ISBN 9780821415894.
{{cite book}}: Unknown parameter|authors=ignored (help) - ^ BILL O'DRISCOLL (MAY 31, 2007). "Affrilachian Poets co-founder Frank X. Walker talks about his new cultural journal, Pluck!". Pittsburgh City Paper.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Richard O Jones (February 24, 2009). "Choreopoem' by Frank X Walker to debut at NKU". Dayton Daily News.
- ^ http://books.google.com/books?id=_ggSAAAAYAAJ&q=Frank+X+Walker&dq=Frank+X+Walker&pgis=1
- ^ http://www.lillianesmith.org/public_html/LES/FrankXWalker.html
- ^ http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/frank-x-walker/