February 2006

The Inktank

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By Jeff Syroney
InkTank executive director, QCF magazine associate editor

One of the region’s most prolific poets is Frank X Walker. A founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, he is the editor of Eclipsing a Nappy New Millennium and the author of three poetry collections: Black Box (Old Cove Press, 2005); Buffalo Dance: the Journey of York (University of Kentucky Press, 2003), winner of the 35th Annual Lillian Smith Book Award; and Affrilachia(Old Cove Press, 2000), a Kentucky Public Librarians' Choice Award nominee. He teaches in the department of English & Theatre and is the Interim Director of the African/African American Studies Program at Eastern Kentucky University. A 2005 recipient of the Lannan Literary Fellowship, he lives in Lexington, KY.

Frank X Walker

InkTank will host an evening of Mr. Walker’s readings at its Final Friday celebration on February 24, 2005. Visit www.inktank.org sometime in early February for times. Ricky L. Jones, author of Black Haze wrote, "The work of Frank X Walker is an eclectic, powerful mixture of liberating style, profound insight, and unwavering organic connection to the intellectual, political, and cultural struggles of a people. He stands in the tradition of DuBois, McKay, Robeson, Hughes, and other great writers, poets and performers whose contributions have transcended time and space to give generation after generation pause and hope." We also bring you the political poetry of local poet William K. Woods who appears in QCF Magazine often.

• QCF Magazine's The InkTank brings author Steven Lansky's weekly serial The Citizen
• Frank X. Walker's Exerpts from Black Box
• William K. Woods Political Doggerel "Abramoff's Absolution"
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