Cody Walker (poet)
Cody Walker (born 1967 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet, essayist, and educator.
Academic studies
Walker holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, an 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,[1] he was elected Seattle Poet Populist[2] in 2007. He has been described as "Seattle's prince of the poetic one-two punch".[3] In 2009, he spent a term as the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow [4] 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,[5] and writes regularly for The Kenyon Review.[6]
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 [7] from Shenandoah in 2003 and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Washington in 2005. In 2010, he won Cartoon Caption Contest #226[8] in The New Yorker.
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.[9]
Notes
External links
- Cody Walker official website
- Interview in the Seattle Weekly
- Interview on KUOW Radio
- Review of Shuffle and Breakdown in the Ann Arbor Observer
- Video of "The Comic Imagination" panel at the Philoctetes Center, moderated by Cody Walker and featuring Lewis Black, Jim Holt, Bruce McCall, and Tami Sagher
- Captions in the Classroom, The New Yorker, June 7, 2013
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