Visiting Writer Series: Frank X Walker

UNC Asheville’s Visting Writer Series presents authors reading from and discussing their works and their writing process. These events are free and open to everyone.

Frank X Walker begins the fall series at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 25, in UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center, in the Manheimer Room.

A founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, Frank X Walker is the editor of America! What’s My Name? The “Other” Poets Unfurl the Flag (Wind Publications, 2007) and Eclipsing a Nappy New Millennium and the author of four poetry collections: When Winter Come: the Ascension of York (University Press of Kentucky, 2008); Black Box (Old Cove Press, 2005); Buffalo Dance: the Journey of York (University Press of Kentucky, 2003), winner of the 35th Annual Lillian Smith Book Award; and Affrilachia (Old Cove Press, 2000), a Kentucky Public Librarians’ Choice Award nominee.

Frank X Walker is UNC Asheville’s Goodman Endowed Visiting Writer for fall 2018.

Here’s a closer look, with commentary by UNC Asheville’s Writer-in-Residence Wiley Cash about all the authors in the Visiting Writer Series. Support for the Visiting Writer Series comes from Biltmore Farms Hotels, BPR (Blue Ridge Public Radio) and Our State magazine.

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