Cody Walker

Cody Walker (born Baltimore, Maryland, in 1967) is an American poet, essayist, and educator.

Academic studies

Walker holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin, an M.F.A. 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 Courtland 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

1. ^ http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/37/walkerc.html
2. ^ Seattle Poet Populist
3. ^ Seattle Magazine
4. ^ Amy Clampitt Fund
5. ^ http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/people/profile.asp?ID=1790
6. ^ The Kenyon Review
7. ^ James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry
8. ^ The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #226
9. ^ The Waywiser Press

External references

• 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

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