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Now, Appalachia Interview with Affrilanchian Poet and Children's Book author Frank X. Walker

Now, Appalachia Interview with Affrilanchian Poet and Children's Book author Frank X. Walker

Update: 2023-02-28
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On the latest episode of Now, Appalachia, Eliot interviews Affrilachian poet, educator, and children's book author Frank X. Walker about his latest children's book A IS FOR AFFRILACHIA. A 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. He is also the author of Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York, winner of the 2004 Lillian Smith Book Award, and Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride, which he adapted for stage, earning him the Paul Green Foundation Playwrights Fellowship Award. His poetry was also dramatized for the 2016 Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, WV and staged by Message Theater for the 2015 Breeders Cup Festival.

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Now, Appalachia Interview with Affrilanchian Poet and Children's Book author Frank X. Walker

Now, Appalachia Interview with Affrilanchian Poet and Children's Book author Frank X. Walker

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