Frank X Walker Q&A introduces his poem “Sorority Meeting”
Frank X Walker introduces his poem “Sorority Meeting.”
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Sorority Meeting
Myrlie Evers speaks to Thelma de la Beckwith My faith urges me to love you. My stomach begs me to not. All I know is that day made us sisters, somehow. After long nervous nights and trials on end we are bound together in this unholy sorority of misery. I think about you every time […]
Frank X Walker Q&A introduces his poem “One-Third of 180 Grams of Lead”
Frank X Walker introduces his poem “One-Third of 180 Grams of Lead.”
One-Third of 180 Grams of Lead
Both of them were history, even before one pulled the trigger. Before I rocketed through the smoking barrel hidden in the honeysuckle, before I tore through a man’s back and shattered his family and a window glass, before I bounced off a refrigerator and a coffeepot, before I landed at my destined point in history, […]
Frank X Walker Q&A on historical poetry
Frank X Walker discusses his formal strategy in writing a series of historical poems.
Frank X Walker Q&A with advice to young writers
Frank X Walker offers advice to young writers.
War of the Foxes
(i) Two rabbits were chased by a fox, of all the crazy shit in the world, and the fox kept up the chase, circling the world until the world caught up with them in some broken-down downtown metropolis. Inside the warren, the rabbits think fast. Pip touches the only other rabbit listening. […]