Convocation: Frank X Walker

Frank X Walker is an African-American poet from Danville, Kentucky. Walker coined the word "Affrilachia", signifying the importance of the African-American presence in Appalachia: the "new word...spoke to the union of Appalachian identity and the regions's African-American culture and history." As of 2013, he is the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. 

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