{"id":18007,"date":"2013-09-05T16:04:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=18007"},"modified":"2013-09-19T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T19:48:07","slug":"frank-x-walker-to-open-2013-14-writers-read-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/frank-x-walker-to-open-2013-14-writers-read-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank X Walker to open 2013-14 Writers Read series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Frank X Walker, a multidisciplinary artist and Al Smith Fellowship recipient, will open the 2013-14 \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/langlit\/writers-read\/\">Writers Read Author series<\/a>,\u201d on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 8:30 p.m., in Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s Lehman Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>As founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.affrilachianpoets.org\/\">Affrilachian Poets<\/a>, Walker is editor of: <em>Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts &amp; Culture<\/em>; <em>America! What\u2019s My Name?<\/em>; <em>The \u201cOther\u201d Poets Unfurl the Flag<\/em> (Wind Publications, 2007); and <em>Eclipsing a Nappy New Millennium<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Walker&#8217;s work explores landscapes and place, social justice and American history,&#8221; said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/beachyk\">Kirsten Beachy<\/a>, assistant professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/langlit\/majors\/english\/\">English<\/a> at EMU. &#8220;His great gift is channeling the voices of people from long past and from the near neighborhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Walker is the author of: <em>Buffalo Dance: the Journey of York<\/em> (University Press of Kentucky, 2003), winner of the 35th Annual Lillian Smith Book Award; and <em>Affrilachia<\/em> (Old Cove Press, 2000), a Kentucky Public Librarians\u2019 Choice Award nominee. He is also the author of two other poetry collections.<\/p>\n<p>Walker\u2019s poems have been converted into a stage production by the University of Kentucky theater department and widely anthologized in numerous collections, including: <em>The Appalachian Journal<\/em>; <em>Limestone;<\/em> <em>Roundtable;<\/em> <em>My Brothers Keeper<\/em>; <em>Spirit and Flame \u2013 An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry;<\/em> and <em>Role Call \u2013 A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and completed an MFA in writing at Spalding University. His latest work is a collection of poems, <em>Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sign-language interpretation is available upon request.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 General public, $5<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 EMU students (with identification), free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank X Walker, a multidisciplinary artist and Al Smith Fellowship recipient, will open the 2013-14 \u201cWriters Read Author series,\u201d on Thursday, Sept. 19, at 8:30 p.m., in Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2013\/frank-x-walker-to-open-2013-14-writers-read-series\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Frank X Walker to open 2013-14 Writers Read series<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":18040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4515,7931,5583,356,5623,5730],"tags":[15072,6374],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-18007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-arts","category-campus-community","category-language-and-literature","category-special-programs","category-undergraduate-programs","tag-frank-x-walker","tag-writers-read"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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