for Cecil
An unexpected tornado
taught us everything
we would ever need
to know about flight
kiting my little brother’s
paperdoll body
off the ground
like a black superman.
Tethered to me with
with a magic lasso:
mama’s instructions
to watch over him.
–Frank X Walker,
About Flight
(Accents Publishing)
Multidisciplinary artist and Danville, Kentucky native, Frank X Walker, is the former Poet Laureate of Kentucky, and Professor in the department of English and the African American and Africana Studies Program at the University of Kentucky. The founding editor of Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture is a Cave Canem Fellow, co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets, and the author of seven collections of poetry including Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, winner of the 2014 NAACP Image Award for best poetry collection. The Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry recipient is the originator of the word, Affrilachia, and wholly committed to deconstructing and forging a new definition of a pluralistic Appalachia.
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