Frank x walker biography of barack

In honor of Veteran’s Day, we present this remarkable collection of historical poetry: Frank X Walker reimagines the experience of Black Civil War soldiers who enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation. He also brings to life his own ancestors who, among so many others, fought for freedom.

For decades the celebrated poet Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, intimate yet expansive, he moves chronologically from antebellum Kentucky through Reconstruction. He braids the voices of the United States Colored Troops with the concerns and cries of their family members, the voices of slave owners with the words of such prominent historical figures as Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, and Margaret Garner. While carefully attuned to the heartbreak and horrors of war, Walker’s poems pay equal care to the pride, perseverance, and triumphs of their speakers. Evoking the formerly enslav

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Frank X Walker

African-American poet from Kentucky, born 1961.

Frank X Walker
Frank X Walker
Born	(1961-06-11) June 11, 1961 (age 63) Danville, Kentucky
Occupation	Poet, educator
Nationality	American
Period	1990s–present
Genre	Poetry, essays, visual art
Subject	Appalachia, history, African-American culture, environment, education

Frank X Walker (born June 11, 1961) is an African American poet from Danville, Kentucky. Walker coined the word "Affrilachia", signifying the importance of the African American presence in Appalachia: the "new word ... spoke to the union of Appalachian identity and the region's African-American culture and history".^[1] He is a professor in the English department at the University of Kentucky^[2] and was the Poet Laureate of Kentucky from 2013 to 2015.^[3]

Biography

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Walker was born Frank Walker Jr., in Danville, Kentucky, the second of eleven children. He grew up in Danvi