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.
  3. Seattle Poet Populist Archived 2010-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Seattle Magazine".
  5. Amy Clampitt Fund Archived 2009-05-18 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-01-24. Retrieved 2010-04-23.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "The Kenyon Review". Archived from the original on 2012-07-09.
  8. James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry Archived 2010-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
  9. "Cartoon Caption Contest - The New Yorker".
  10. "The Waywiser Press". Archived from the original on 2009-06-08. Retrieved 2010-04-21.
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