Cody Walker
Cody Walker (born 1967) is an American poet, essayist, and educator.
Cody Walker
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- Cody Walker
- Born
- 1967
- Birthplace
- 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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• Name — Cody Walker • Born — 1967 • Birthplace — Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. • Occupation — Poet, essayist, educator • Education — University of Wisconsin (BA) University of Arkansas (MFA) University of Washington (PhD) • Website — http: www.codywalker.net Cody Walker (born 1967) is an American poet, essayist, and educator.
Family
Family
His brother Clay Walker is the Mayor of Denali Borough, Alaska.
Academic studies
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
Career
A longtime writer-in-residence in Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools program, he was elected Seattle Poet Populist in 2007. He has been described as "Seattle's prince of the poetic one-two punch". In 2009, he spent a term as the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow 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, and writes regularly for The Kenyon Review.
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Works
• "Poetry"; "Warmer Still"; "Cinque Poesie", Courtland Review, February 2003, Issue 22 • "St. Louis / January 1891"; "Wheeling / February 1892", 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.
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 from Shenandoah in 2003 and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Washington in 2005. In 2010, he won Cartoon Caption Contest #226 in The New Yorker.
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- 1.Government of Denali Borough, AK
- 2.Cody Walker, Poetry: Issue 37 - The Cortland Review. www.cortlandreview.com.
- 3.Seattle Poet Populist.
- 4.Dead link. Seattle Magazine. July 2019.
- 5.Amy Clampitt Fund
- 6.U-M Department of English: People: Profile View: Cody Walker.
- 7.The Kenyon Review.
- 8.James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry
- 9.Cartoon Caption Contest - The New Yorker.
- 10.The Waywiser Press.
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