Frank X Walker Bibliography

Anthologies Edited[]

2007 – America! What's My Name?

Poetry Collections[]

2000 – Affrilachia
2004 – Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York
2005 – Black Box: Poems
2008 – When Winter Come: The Ascension of York
2010 – Isaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride
2013 – Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers
2015 – About Flight
2017 – Ink Stains & Watermarks: New and Collected Poems

Poems[]

2000 – Clifton I
2000 – Wishbone
2000 – Statues of Liberty
2000 – Matriarch
2000 – Cease Fire
2000 – Rock Star
2000 – Crooked Afro
2000 – Hummingbird
2000 – Death by Basketball
2000 – Neapolitan
2000 – CP Time
2000 – Lil' Kings
2000 – Sweet B
2000 – Violins or Violen...ce
2000 – Taking the Stares
2000 – Million Man March
2000 – The Harvest
2000 – Dogon
2000 – Healer
2000 – Fireproof
2000 – Amazin' Grace
2000 – A Wake
2000 – Red-Handed
2000 – Poetry Moments
2000 – Diamond Seed
2000 – In Hell Exhale
2000 – Mermaid
2000 – Stop Looking and Listen
2000 – My Boy D'
2000 – Nikki
2000 – Ed Works
2000 – Jibaros
2000 – Sara Yevo
2000 – Indiana
2000 – Affrilachia
2000 – Breakfast in Hazard
2000 – Kentucke
2000 – Clifton II
2004 – Wind Talker
2004 – Work Ethic
2004 – God's House
2004 – Primer
2004 – At Ease
2004 – Sundays and Christmas
2004 – Calendar
2004 – Her Current
2004 – Medicine Man
2004 – Spirit Mound
2004 – Wasicum Sapa
2004 – Winter Leaf
2004 – Buffalo Dance
2004 – No Offense
2004 – Leading Men
2004 – Domestique
2004 – Work Song
2004 – Perfume
2004 – Black Magic
2004 – Sandstone Thighs
2004 – Mouths and Waters
2004 – The Portage
2004 – Sun Son
2004 – Double Yolks
2004 – Ornithologists
2004 – Swap Meet
2004 – Promises
2004 – Nomenclature
2004 – Respect House
2004 – Prosperity
2004 – Vision Quest
2004 – Vision Quest II
2004 – Ananse
2004 – Mythology
2004 – Earth Tones
2004 – Sweat Lodge
2004 – Doubt
2004 – Cold Hearted
2004 – Sad Eye
2004 – Aurora Borealis
2004 – Electorate
2004 – Winter with Jonah
2004 – Majesty
2004 – Pomp's Tower
2004 – The Little Sneeze
2004 – York Haichu
2004 – Pastry Chefs
2004 – Unravel
2004 – Revisionist History
2004 – Monticello
2004 – Souvenir
2004 – Just Rewards
2004 – A Love Supreme
2004 – Holy Water
2004 – Ursa Major
2004 – Cumulonimbus
2004 – Birth Day
2005 – Kentucky vs. Texas Western, 1966
2005 – Handmade
2005 – Canning Memories
2005 – View Finder
2005 – Kodak Moment
2005 – Photosynthesis
2005 – Family Reunion
2005 – Glutton
2005 – Sugar Babies
2005 – Twenty-First Sentry
2005 – Writes of Passage
2005 – Too Wise Men
2005 – Elves
2005 – Altitude Adjustment
2005 – Enough
2005 – Jesuit
2005 – Curiosity
2005 – Why We Keep Plants
2005 – Frontier Spirit
2005 – Creek Philosophy
2005 – Salt
2005 – Last Words
2005 – Earthmen
2005 – Lil' League Shaman
2005 – Jumpman
2005 – Teed Off
2005 – Nosotros
2005 – Double Exposure
2005 – Rustlin'
2005 – We Real Crunk
2005 – Brer Fox
2005 – Cold Still
2005 – When I Can't Find the Words
2005 – Walk With Me Basho
2005 – Literary Patriarch
2005 – After Charlotte Left George Ella's Party at Hindman
2005 – My Poems Been Runnin' They Mouths Again
2005 – How to Bury a Dead Man
2005 – Write Like a Dog
2005 – The Dozens
2005 – Crooked Letter Crooked Letter Eye Humpback Humpback Eye
2005 – Memento
2005 – Boonesborough
2005 – Beacon
2005 – Great Day in Harlan
2005 – Blues Ridge
2005 – Meteorologist
2005 – Theory of Relativity
2005 – Bread and Fruit
2005 – Massage
2005 – Camel Conquers Eye of Needle
2005 – Ms. Cegenation
2005 – Sunday Morning
2005 – Son Rise
2005 – Black Leprechauns
2005 – Spit Shine
2005 – Silent Witness
2005 – Fetal Position
2005 – Hollow
2005 – Last Writes: A Requiem for Mama
2005 – Haiku for Nikki
2005 – La Arquitectura
2005 – Voyeur
2005 – Cincinnati
2005 – He Who Sleeps Alone
2005 – Black Box
2005 – Anniversary
2005 – Wings
2007 – In the Name a the Father
2007 – The River Speaks
2007 – Watkuweis Speaks
2007 – Art of Seduction
2007 – Lovers' Moon
2007 – Primer II
2007 – Praying Feets
2007 – Murmuration
2007 – Field Up
2007 – Unwelcome Guest
2007 – Real Costs
2007 – Umatilla Prophecy
2007 – Eye of the Beholder
2008 – Role Call
2008 – Homecoming
2008 – The Melting
2008 – The Great Inquisition
2008 – How the River Like a Snake
2008 – Without Bibles
2008 – Whupped
2008 – Like a Virgin
2008 – Like Raven from Head to Toe
2008 – Quiet Storm
2008 – Midnight Ride
2008 – Circle a Gifts
2008 – Forsaking All Others
2008 – Meteorology
2008 – False Impressions
2008 – Praise Song
2008 – Hunters' Code
2008 – Signigying
2008 – Settling Debts
2008 – Learning Curve
2008 – Concentric
2008 – Common Ground
2008 – How to Say Goodbye to the Ocean
2008 – Cutting Back
2008 – To Honor and Obey
2008 – Ananse Returns
2008 – Rose and York's Wife Debate the Merits of Love
2008 – Whiskey Talks
2008 – Real Medicine
2008 – How I Know Mamma Out There Watching
2008 – Wordsmith
2008 – Devil's Tower and the Big Dipper
2008 – Power a Touch
2008 – Red, Light, and Blue
2008 – Rose Shows Her Thorns
2008 – Summer a Peace
2008 – A New York
2008 – Dream Catcher
2008 – End a the Song
2008 – Say My Name
2008 – Unwelcome Guest
2008 – The Sunflower Seed Oil Conjure
2008 – Chapel a Love
2008 – To Have and to Hold
2008 – Real Costs
2008 – Seeing is Believing
2010 – Murphy's Secret
2010 – I Dedicate This Ride
2010 – I Thought Slavery Was a Song
2010 – For Family and Country
2010 – The Right to Bear Arms
2010 – Camp Nelson
2010 – The Heart of the Matter
2010 – The Good Book
2010 – How Faith Works
2010 – What Mamma Knows
2010 – Defining Wealth
2010 – Uncle Eli's Boys
2010 – Uncle Eli's Rules
2010 – Temple of My Familiar
2010 – Quality Time
2010 – Science Class for Jockeys
2010 – Yardstick
2010 – Groom
2010 – Touch
2010 – Thy Will Be Done
2010 – Perfect Timing
2010 – Keeper of the Flame
2010 – Finer Womanhood
2010 – Come Sunday It's Derby
2010 – Nomenclature
2010 – Walking Tall
2010 – Down the Backstretch
2010 – First Kiss
2010 – Mass Choir
2010 – More Than Luck
2010 – Horseshoes
2010 – Isaacstan
2010 – Black Gentry
2010 – I Find it Easy to Deflect
2010 – Negritude Test
2010 – Truth Talk
2010 – Looks Like a Rich White Lady, But
2010 – Oh, Weep No More Today
2010 – Silver Stakes
2010 – Attitude Adjustment
2010 – God's House
2010 – Empty Nest
2010 – Pound for Pound
2010 – Too Heavy
2010 – Character
2010 – Blinders
2010 – The Power of Sports
2010 – Don't Let the N*gger Win
2010 – Player Vigil
2010 – Ain't Your Uncle Tom or Uncle Remus
2010 – The Color of Racing
2010 – Isaac Grants an Interview
2010 – Colored Jockeys Show the Way
2010 – On the Way to the Pasture
2010 – How to Break a Thoroughbred
2010 – February
2010 – Here Lies
2010 – Healing Songs
2010 – Praise Song
2013 – What Kills Me
2013 – Ambiguity over the Confederate Flag
2013 – Rotten Fruit
2013 – Humor Me
2013 – The N-Word
2013 – Southern Sports
2013 – Byron De La Beckwith Dreaming I
2013 – I'd Wish I Was in Dixie Too
2013 – Fire Proof
2013 – Listening to Music
2013 – Life Apes Art Apes Life: Byron De La Beckwith Reflects on Birth of a Nation
2013 – White of Way
2013 – Music, N*ggers & Jews
2013 – Swamp Thing
2013 – Stand by Your Man
2013 – Husbandry
2013 – Unwritten Rules for Young Black Boys Wanting to Live in Mississippi Long Enough to Become a Man
2013 – Byron De La Beckwith Dreaming II
2013 – After Dinner in Money, Mississippi
2013 – World War Too
2013 – Believing in Hymn
2013 – Southern Bells
2013 – Fighting Extinction
2013 – Harriet Tubman as Villain: A Ghost Story
2013 – Legal Lynching
2013 – After the FBI Searched the Bayou
2013 – Haiku for Emmett Till
2013 – No More Fear
2013 – When Death Moved In
2013 – Byron De La Beckwith Dreaming III
2013 – After Birth
2013 – Sorority Meeting
2013 – One-Third of 180 Grams of Lead
2013 – Arlington
2013 – Cross-Examination
2013 – Bighearted
2013 – Anatomy of Hate
2013 – What They Call Irony
2013 – On Moving to California
2013 – One Mississippi, Two Mississippis
2013 – A Final Accounting
2013 – Now One Wants to Be President
2013 – Epiphany
2013 – Last Meal Haiku
2013 – White Knights
2013 – Evers Family Secret Recipe
2013 – The Assurance Man
2013 – Gift of Time
2013 – Heavy Wait