In the introduction to her book, Reckoning with the Past (U of Kentucky 2025), Yohe identifies the five poetry collections by Frank X Walker on which her research is focused. She selected these collections containing historical persona poems as vantage points from which readers can “interrogate a cultural and national past.” She describes persona poems […]
“Reckoning with the Past: The Historical Poetry of Frank X Walker” by Kristine Yohe
September 14, 2026 by Leave a Comment
“Remembering Medgar Evers,” by Minrose Gwin
August 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Chris Timmons Medgar Evers should be of interest to anyone who has examined the racial history of the United States, and of the South. It’s too bad he is now near-forgotten. Undoubtedly, general American forgetfulness has much to do with it; as far as history goes, Americans do not have much memory. Nor […]
August Read of the Month: “Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers,” by Frank X Walker
August 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by William Aarnes One of the shortcomings of the recently published Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry is its failure to include poems by Frank X Walker. Perhaps the reason that a sampling of Walker’s poems does not appear is the kind of poems he writes. The editor of the […]
Southern Literary Review Honors Medgar Evers
August 4, 2013 by Leave a Comment
This month, Southern Literary Review honors Medgar Evers, the African-American Civil Rights leader from Mississippi who was murdered in 1963. Our Read of the Month, reviewed by William Aarnes of Furman University, is Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers (University of Georgia Press, 2013), a collection of poems by Frank X. Walker. That review will be followed […]