Anthony Walton (poet)

Anthony Walton (poet)

Anthony Walton (1960-present) is an American poet and writer. He is perhaps best known as the author of a chapbook of poems, "Cricket Weather" [ [http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19694 Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Double-Bind: Three Women of the Harlem Renaissance ] ] and for his non-fiction work "Mississippi: An American Journey." His work has appeared widely in magazines, journals, and anthologies, including "The New Yorker", "Kenyon Review", "Oxford American", and "Rainbow Darkness". He is currently a professor and the writer-in-residence at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. [ [http://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/w/walton/ Anthony E. Walton (Bowdoin) ] ]

Early life

Walton grew up in Aurora, Illinois. He studied at Notre Dame University with graduate studies at Brown University.

Literary career

In 1989, Walton wrote an essay for the "New York Times Magazine," "Willie Horton and Me," concerning race issues of the time. Walton won a Whiting Writers' Award in 1998 in fiction. [ [http://www.whitingfoundation.org/recipients.html Past Recipients of the Whiting Writers' Awards | Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation ] ] He contributed to By J. Peder Zane's 2004 "Remarkable Reads: 34 Writers and Their Adventures in Reading" (ISBN 0393325407).

Works

*"Every Shut Eye Aint Asleep: Anthology Of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945" (Editor) 1994
*"Cricket Weather" 1995
*"Go and Tell Pharaoh" with Reverend Al Sharpton, 1996
*"Mississippi: An American Journey" 1997
*"The Vintage Book of African American Poetry" (Editor) 2002
*"Brothers In Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes" with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 2004

References

External links

* [http://anthonywalton.com Official Website (under construction)]
* [http://www.fishousepoems.org/archives/anthony_walton/index.shtml Audio of Anthony Walton Poems]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE7D7133AF933A1575BC0A96F948260 Walton's 1989 essay, "Willie Horton and Me"]
* [http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/99jan/aftech.htm Walton's 1999 essay, "Technology vs. African Americans"]
* [http://www.nd.edu/~ndmag/w2001-02/walton.html Walton's 2001 essay, "To Be Led by a Teacher"]
* [http://www.nd.edu/~ndmag/su2003/walton.html Walton's 2003 essay, "With Freedom and Justice for All"]


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