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Frank X Walker
Multidisciplinary artist and Danville, Kentucky native Frank X Walker is the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky and Professor in the department of English and the African American and Africana Studies Program at the University of Kentucky. The founding editor of Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture is a Cave Canem Fellow, co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets, and the author of seven collections of poetry, including Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, winner of the 2014 NAACP Image Award for best poetry collection. The Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry recipient is the originator of the word, Affrilachia, and wholly committed to deconstructing and forging a new definition of a pluralistic Appalachia.
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Masked Man, Black
Frank X Walker
"Professor Frank X Walker has yet again used his superpowers to insert a conscience into the tumultuous cacophony that is social media. His latest series of poems debuted in our news feeds, week after week, speaking truth to the tangled web of perspectives splattered across our digital landscape. By spreading light in our darkest times, our Professor X speaks to a class of students, who have been mutated by the pandemic, by political doublespeak and visions of violence and brutality from around the world. With each new line of prose, our Professor X reads our minds and speaks to our hearts. Catharsis and metamorphosis are experienced simultaneously for the reader."—Willard C. Watson III
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News and Events
Frank X Walker's Appearances
Accents Publishing author Frank X Walker is scheduled to appear at the following events:
- January 14, 6:30PM. Soapboxdiaries recording session
- January 18, 8:45 am, Professional Development, "Teaching the Culture of Race", Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement, NKU
- January 21, Opening Reception and Gallery Talk, The Art of Being Black, Art Center of the Bluegrass
- January 26th, 6:00pm-7:30, African American Poetry:250 Years of Struggle and Song?, Muncie Public Library, Tenisha Harris contact
- Wednesday, Feb 3rd, 5:00-6:00pm, Reading, for Transylvania University, Judy Gains Young Book Award, contact Maurice Manning
- Wednesday, Feb 3rd, 7-8:00 pm, Lexington League of Women Voters, contact Mary Hughes
- Monday, February 8th, 5:00pm, visit Kris Yohe class, Northern Kentucky University
- February 17, 12:00 noon, Virtual SouthTalk, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, contact Afton Thomas
- Thursday, Feb 25th, 2pm, "Art & Activism, in Appalachia," panel for ARC, Appalachian regional commission, contact Candace Stribling
- TBD, Conversation w//Dr. Morgan, KAC, contact Emily Moses
- July 12-18, Summer Fishtrap, workshop and opening Keynote
- July 19-23, Appalachian Writers Workshop, virtual, Poetry Workshop, 90 min between 9-4pm. Contact Silas House
- July 23-25, Taos Writers Workshop, virtual workshops, Jan Smith contact
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