Frank X Walker is a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, a Cave Canem fellow, and a recipient of a 2005 Lannan Literary Fellowship. He is the author of seven collections of poetry including About Flight (Accents Publishing, 2015); Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers (University of Georgia Press, 2013), winner of the 2014 NAACP Image Award for […]
Frank X Walker introduces his Isaac Murphy project.
Frank X Walker introduces his poem “Come Sunday Its Derby.”
America Burns He might not ever tell it to the papers but I’m the first person Isaac ever see ride I’m the first person he watch get up ‘for dawn fill a tub wit scaldin’ water, soap an dirty clothes lock everything ‘tween my knees bend over an grab somethin by its ears an race […]
Frank X Walker introduces his poem “Murphy’s Secret.”
Isaac Murphy When folks find out I’m him they always want to know what I say to ’em. If they be white I tell ’em I say, Run an run quick or they gone feed you to the niggers. An they usually laugh an leave me be. If they be black I tell them the […]
Lucy Murphy When my Isaac is traveling and I start to miss him I polish silver to pass the time. Not some rich white lady’s eight-piece place setting, but my own. When no one is watching, I line up gravy ladles, hooded asparagus servers, big banquet spoons, and our matching salt cellar and peppercorn grinder […]
Frank X Walker introduces his poems “Groom and “Horseshoes Only Lucky When They Miss.”