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. ↑ http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/people/profile.asp?ID=1790
  7. ↑ "The Kenyon Review".
  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
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