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    Frank X. Walker

    Frank X Walker is the author of thirteen poetry collections. He is the 2025 winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and was the 2013 Kentucky poet laureate. He holds the endowed C.?R. Lezius Professorship in the Arts at the University of Kentucky and resides in Lexington, Kentucky.

    Frank X. Walker

    Frank X Walker is the author of thirteen poetry collections. He is the 2025 winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, and was the 2013 Kentucky poet laureate. He holds the endowed C.?R. Lezius Professorship in the Arts at the University of Kentucky and resides in Lexington, Kentucky.

    Awards

    Winner — PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, 2025

    Books by Frank X. Walker

    • Load in Nine Times: Poems

      Frank X. Walker

      Hardback, 2024

      From former poet laureate of Kentucky and founder of the Affrilachian Poets, a collection of historical poetry that gives voice to Black Civil War soldiers

    • Load in Nine Times: Poems

      Frank X. Walker

      E Book

      From former poet laureate of Kentucky and founder of the Affrilachian Poets, a collection of historical poetry that gives voice to Black Civil War soldiers

    • Load in Nine Times: Poems

      Frank X. Walker

      Paperback, 2026

      Frank X. Walker reimagines the experiences of Black American Civil War soldiers–including his own ancestors–who enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation

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