BACHE Visiting Writers Series: Frank X Walker
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1221 10th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35205
https://www.uab.edu/cas/english/events/uab-writers-seriesA native of Danville, Kentucky, Frank X Walker is the first African American writer to be named Kentucky Poet Laureate. Walker has published eleven collections of poetry, including Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, which was awarded the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Poetry and the Black Caucus American Library Association Honor Award for Poetry.
Voted one of the most creative professors in the south, Walker coined the term “Affrilachia” and co- founded the Affrilachian Poets, subsequently publishing the much-celebrated eponymous collection.
His most recent collection is Masked Man, Black: Pandemic & Protest Poems.
The UAB Writers' Series is an annual offering of the Creative Writing program. Nationally recognized authors are invited to UAB to give readings and participate in Q&A sessions.
The series is co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Honors Program, BACHE Visiting Writers, the Alys Stephens Center, UAB Student Government Association, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and Friends of the Writing Program.
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