Frank X Walker to read at the Sandoz Center

Frank X Walker, former Poet Laureate of Kentucky, will give a public poetry reading at the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center, Thursday, March 15, at 7 p.m. The reading is a part of Chadron State College’s Distinguished Writer Series and is sponsored by the English and Humanities department. Walker is the author of 8 published collections of poetry and is the winner of the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry and the Lillian Smith Book Award.
Walker is a professor in the department of English and African American and Africana Studies Program at the University of Kentucky and the founding editor of “Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture.” Walker also coined the word, Affrilachia, and is dedicated to deconstructing and forcing a new definition of what it means to be Appalachian. Walker has degrees from the University of Kentucky and Spalding University, as well as three honorary doctorates from the University of Kentucky, Spalding University and Transylvania University.
The reading, which is free and open to the public, is fully funded by the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Society.