Cody Walker
Encyclopedia
Cody Walker is an American poet, essayist, and educator.
from the University of Wisconsin, an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas
, and a Ph.D.
from the University of Washington
.
In 2009, he spent a term as the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow 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
, and writes regularly for The Kenyon Review
.
Walker received the James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry from Shenandoah in 2003 and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Washington
in 2005.
In 2010, he won Cartoon Caption Contest #226 in The New Yorker
.
Academic studies
Walker holds a B.A.Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
from the University of Wisconsin, an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...
, and a Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
from the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
.
Career
A longtime writer-in-residence in Seattle Arts & Lectures' Writers in the Schools program, he was elected Seattle Poet Populist in 2007. He has been described as "Seattle's prince of the poetic one-two punch".In 2009, he spent a term as the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellow in Lenox
Lenox
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, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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.
His work appears in Courtland Review, The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry
The Best American Poetry series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems.The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year...
, Slate, Parnassus, Light, and The Yale Review
The Yale Review
The Yale Review is the self-proclaimed oldest literary quarterly in the United States. It is published by Yale University.It was founded originally in 1819 as The Christian Spectator. At its origin it was published to support Evangelicalism, but over time began to publish more on history and...
. He currently teaches English at the University of Michigan
University of Michigan
The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
, and writes regularly for The Kenyon Review
The Kenyon Review
The Kenyon Review is a Literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, USA, home of Kenyon College. The Review was founded in 1939 by John Crowe Ransom, critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959...
.
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 from Shenandoah in 2003 and a Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
in 2005.
In 2010, he won Cartoon Caption Contest #226 in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
.
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.
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