Anthony Walton

Anthony Walton is the author of a chapbook of poems, Cricket Weather (Blackberry Books, 1995), and with Michael Harper edited Every Shut Eye Ain’t Asleep: An Anthology of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (Back Bay Books, 1994) and The Vintage Book of African American Poetry (Vintage, 2000). He is also the author of Mississippi: An American Journey (Vintage, 1997); and with Kareem Abdul Jabar, Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII’s Forgotten Heroes (Random House, 2005). Walton’s work has appeared widely in magazines, journals, and anthologies, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, and Rainbow Darkness. He is Writer-in-Residence at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.