Cody Walker (poet)
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| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, essayist, educator |
| Education | University of Wisconsin (BA) University of Arkansas (MFA) University of Washington (PhD) |
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Cody Walker (born 1967 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet, essayist, and educator.
Family
[edit]His brother Clay Walker is the Mayor of Denali Borough, Alaska.[1]
Academic studies
[edit]Walker holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Arkansas, and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
Career
[edit]A longtime writer-in-residence in Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools program,[2] he was elected Seattle Poet Populist[3] in 2007. He has been described as "Seattle's prince of the poetic one-two punch".[4] In 2009, he spent a term as the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow [5] in Lenox, Massachusetts.
His work appears in The Cortland Review, The Best American Poetry, Slate, Parnassus, Light, and The Yale Review. He currently teaches English at the University of Michigan,[6] and writes regularly for The Kenyon Review.[7]
Awards
[edit]He is a co-recipient of the 2009 Amy Clampitt Residency Award and author of the poetry collection Shuffle and Breakdown. Walker received the James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry [8] from Shenandoah in 2003 and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Washington in 2005. In 2010, he won Cartoon Caption Contest #226[9] in The New Yorker.
Works
[edit]- "Poetry"; "Warmer Still"; "Cinque Poesie", Courtland Review, February 2003, Issue 22
- "St. Louis / January 1891"; "Wheeling / February 1892" Archived August 19, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Courtland Review, November 2007, Issue 37
- "Petronius"; “The Mould of a Dog Corpse”, Mare Nostrum, Volume III
- Shuffle and Breakdown, was published in 2008 by The Waywiser Press.[10]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Government of Denali Borough, AK
- ^ "Cody Walker, Poetry: Issue 37 - The Cortland Review". www.cortlandreview.com. Archived from the original on August 19, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
- ^ Seattle Poet Populist Archived May 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Seattle Magazine".[permanent dead link]
- ^ Amy Clampitt Fund Archived May 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "U-M Department of English: People: Profile View: Cody Walker". Archived from the original on January 24, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
- ^ "The Kenyon Review". Archived from the original on July 9, 2012.
- ^ James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry Archived March 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Cartoon Caption Contest - The New Yorker".
- ^ "The Waywiser Press". Archived from the original on June 8, 2009. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
External links
[edit]- Cody Walker official website
- Interview in the Seattle Weekly
- Interview on KUOW Radio
- Review of Shuffle and Breakdown in the Ann Arbor Observer
- Video of "The Comic Imagination" panel at the Philoctetes Center, moderated by Cody Walker and featuring Lewis Black, Jim Holt, Bruce McCall, and Tami Sagher
- Captions in the Classroom, The New Yorker, June 7, 2013
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