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About the Author Frank X Walker, a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets (the subjects of the award-winning documentary Coal Black Voices), is the editor of Eclipsing a Nappy New Millennium (Haraka Press), the author of Affrilachia (Old Cove Press), and a recipient of an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. His poetry has been converted into a stage production by the University of Kentucky Theatre department and widely anthologized in numerous collections including The Appalachian Journal, Limestone, A Kentucky Christmas, Roundtable, Wind, My Brother's Keeper, Spirit and Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry, and Role Call: A Generational Anthology ofSocial and Political Black Literature and Art. The Danville, Kentucky, native is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and Spalding University, and Spalding University's MFA in Writing program. He holds honorary doctoral degrees from Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky and is currently the executive director of Kentucky's Governor's School for the Arts and a vice president of the Kentucky Center. ...

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