Featured Author
Greg Pape
Greg Pape is the author of nine books, including Border Crossings, Black Branches, Storm Pattern (University of Pittsburgh Press), Sunflower Facing the Sun, winner of the Edwin Ford Piper Prize (University of Iowa Press), and American Flamingo, winner of a Crab Orchard Open Competition Award (Southern Illinois University Press). His poems have been published widely in such magazines and literary reviews as The Atlantic, Iowa Review, The New Yorker, Northwest Review, and Poetry. He has received the Discovery/The Nation Award, two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Fellowships, the Pushcart Prize, the Richard Hugo Memorial Poetry Award, and his poems have been featured on NPR and read by Garrison Keillor on The Writers' Almanac. He teaches at the University of Montana, and in the Brief-residency MFA program at Spalding University. Greg served as Poet Laureate of Montana from 2007 to 2009.
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A Field of First Things
Greg Pape
In A Field of First Things, you can read some of Greg Pape's best work, featuring narrative poems of beauty and compassion, poems addressing the complex interdependence between humans and the natural world. "From Captiva Island's dock to a shared deep dive into Moby Dick, to the crashing waves in the South Bay, to a pool of mountain water, Greg Pape transports the reader across liquid time. Imbued with the trust of a loyal dog, we ride along like Lulu, marveling at Sandhill cranes and bucks in the Bitterroots, stare out at wide open mysterious desert nights and back into the still wet lives of people who have earned their venerable places in a constellation of shimmering memories. A Field of First Things allows the reader to experience the full power of a master poet who carries us willingly along on a journey where we are at once the ocean and the whale. And we all rise to the surface better for it."—Frank X Walker
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News and Events
Frank X Walker's Appearances
Accents Publishing author Frank X Walker is scheduled to appear at the following events:
- January 14, 6:30PM. Soapboxdiaries recording session
- January 18, 8:45 am, Professional Development, "Teaching the Culture of Race", Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement, NKU
- January 21, Opening Reception and Gallery Talk, The Art of Being Black, Art Center of the Bluegrass
- January 26th, 6:00pm-7:30, African American Poetry:250 Years of Struggle and Song?, Muncie Public Library, Tenisha Harris contact
- Wednesday, Feb 3rd, 5:00-6:00pm, Reading, for Transylvania University, Judy Gains Young Book Award, contact Maurice Manning
- Wednesday, Feb 3rd, 7-8:00 pm, Lexington League of Women Voters, contact Mary Hughes
- Monday, February 8th, 5:00pm, visit Kris Yohe class, Northern Kentucky University
- February 17, 12:00 noon, Virtual SouthTalk, Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, contact Afton Thomas
- Thursday, Feb 25th, 2pm, "Art & Activism, in Appalachia," panel for ARC, Appalachian regional commission, contact Candace Stribling
- TBD, Conversation w//Dr. Morgan, KAC, contact Emily Moses
- July 12-18, Summer Fishtrap, workshop and opening Keynote
- July 19-23, Appalachian Writers Workshop, virtual, Poetry Workshop, 90 min between 9-4pm. Contact Silas House
- July 23-25, Taos Writers Workshop, virtual workshops, Jan Smith contact
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