Awards & Winners

Frank X Walker

Date of Birth 11-June-1961
Place of Birth Danville
(Boyle County, Kentucky, United States of America)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Frank Walker, Jr.
Profession Poet, Visual Artist, Essayist
Frank X Walker is an African-American poet from Danville, Kentucky. Walker coined the word "Affrilachia", signifying the importance of the African-American presence in Appalachia: the "new word ... spoke to the union of Appalachian identity and the region's African-American culture and history". As of 2013, he is the Poet Laureate of Kentucky.

Awards by Frank X Walker

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2014


NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry
Honored for : Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Poetry Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers