Cody Walker (poet)

Cody Walker (born 1967 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet, essayist, and educator.

Family

His brother Clay Walker is the Mayor of Denali Borough, Alaska.[1]

Academic studies

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

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

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

Notes
  1. Government of Denali Borough, AK
  2. "Cody Walker, Poetry: Issue 37 - The Cortland Review". www.cortlandreview.com. Archived from the original on August 19, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
  3. Seattle Poet Populist Archived May 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Seattle Magazine".
  5. Amy Clampitt Fund Archived May 18, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  6. "U-M Department of English: People: Profile View: Cody Walker". Archived from the original on January 24, 2010. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
  7. "The Kenyon Review". Archived from the original on July 9, 2012.
  8. James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry Archived March 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  9. "Cartoon Caption Contest - The New Yorker".
  10. "The Waywiser Press". Archived from the original on June 8, 2009. Retrieved April 21, 2010.
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