Frank X. Walker

Friday's guest lecturer will be Frank X. Walker. Here's a link to his website. Mr. Walker is the author of four books of poems and the winner of a prestigious Lannan Foundation fellowship for his work in 2005. He has served as a teacher and arts administrator, perhaps most notably to us as former Executive Director of the Kentucky Center Governor's School for the Arts. He is currently the Writer in Residence and lecturer of English at Northern Kentucky University and is the proud editor and publisher of PLUCK!, the Journal of Affrilachian Art & Culture.

Here's a link to an interview with him on-line.

Here's the poem that coined the term: "Affrilachia."

And here's a Google-book version of his collection, Black Box.

Kenyon Review Contest

Sophomores and Juniors: Click here to enter a poem in the prestigious Kenyon Review contest. Do it today. Submit a poem you haven't submitted elsewhere, as there's a chance it will be published in the Kenyon Review and that's a pretty big deal. Hence, no simultaneous submissions.

Mark Chagall: The Red Jew (1915)

Hollins Poetry Contest

For those of you who ARE NOT possesed of a Y-chromosome (i.e., everybody but Ramsey, Brookes, Tyler, and Michael), click on this link to submit some work to the Hollins Poetry Contest. Click the "Submit online" link on the right-hand column. Again: pay no attention to the deadline. It's all about mind-meld here.

Bennington Poetry Contest

Click this link. Then click on the "submission form" link and follow the instructions. Pay no attention to the deadline. We don't need no stinking deadlines.

Here's some info you'll need to complete the form:

Alabama School of Fine Arts
1800 8th Ave N
Birmingham, AL 35203

CEEB Code 010326
Phone: (205) 252-9241
Fax: (205) 251-9541

Poetry Daily

"The Wasp Queen" by Meirion Jordon.

Poetry Daily!

Two poems by Marianne Boruch.

Folder Fodder Smorgasbord

Pick three of the prompts you haven't done and do them.

• Prompt #1: Friday, Sept. 12
• Prompt #2: Friday, Sept. 19
• Prompt #3: Friday, Oct. 3
• Prompt #4: Wednesday, Oct. 8

Turn at least one in by today.
Turn at least two in by tomorrow.
Turn all three in no later than Friday.

Yay!

Poetry Daily!

"Winter Trees Cough Like Old Men" by Eugenio Montejo.

Verse Daily!

"The Sunset District" by Sarah V. Schweig.