Frank X Walker is a professor of English and African American and Africana Studies at the University of Kentucky. A Cave Canem Fellow and co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets, Walker is the former Kentucky Poet Laureate and author of ten collections of poetry including Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, winner of the NAACP Image Award for Poetry. His honors also include a Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry, the Black Caucus American Library Association Honor Award for Poetry, and the Paul Green Foundation Playwrights Fellowship Award.

Other poems by Frank X Walker in Verse Daily:
January 26, 2016:   "Chest of Drawers" "You call it needing to move furniture..."

Books by Frank X Walker:

Other poems on the web by Frank X Walker:
"Hoofers"
"Death by Basketball"
Two poems
"Elves"
"Talking in Tongues"
Ten poems
"Affrilachia"

Frank X Walker's Website.

Frank X Walker on Twitter.

About Last Will, Last Testament:

"In his latest collection, Last Will, Last Testament, Frank X Walker turns the same unflinching gaze he's committed to historic figures now towards his own lineage. As these poems bear witness in real time to his father's last breaths even as his new son takes his first, Walker serves again as the linchpin between generations. Ever a master distiller of the heart, Walker presents us with, arguably, his most complex elixir to date, best imbibed with no chaser."
—Bianca Lynne Spriggs

"Through rare intimacy, Frank X Walker takes us to the literal intersection of life and death: As his father dies, a son is born. With Walker "at the fulcrum, trying to balance them both," we feel the weight of old and new "unblended families" and ride the contours of male longing, grief, and hope. Trusting a mature poet's candor and control, Walker shows us the inseparability of love from sorrow, of future from past, of father from son."
—Neil Chethik