Sue Walker |
Sue Brannan Walker is known internationally for her poetry, as well as for her critical articles on poets and writers such as James Dickey, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, Carson McCullers. As editor and publisher of Negative Capability, she has published numerous Alabama poets and writers, providing them a greater audience and some of them their first opportunity to be published. She has continued this work since 1981-a distinguished effort recognized by Writer's Digest when it ranked Negative Capability third in the nation in poetry in the early 1990s, out of approximately 2700 markets.
Her poetry, prose works, and community service have deservedly garnered numerous awards, grants, and fellowships. She has published six volumes of poetry. Her latest collection is Blood Will Bear Your Name, which won Book of the Year from the Alabama State Poetry Society and which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
She also serves as the chair of the University of South Alabama English Department. Dr. Walker's current works in progress include: a study of Deep ecology in James Dickey's work; a novel on the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mobile, Alabama; a biography of Jefferson Davis in sonnets; and work on Flannery O'Connor and Kate Chopin.
Rick Bragg in the Movies
Even though you weren’t able to attend the September 26, 2011, sold-out world premiere of Alabama’s Rick Bragg: Out of the Dirt, here’s your opportunity to view the entire movie at home, as well as much bonus footage not seen in the original documentary.
Listen in on distinguished Alabamaians, local friends and family tell inside tales on Rick as a child and award-winning best-selling author. Rick also gives his life’s philosophy in many scenes. Find out about his mother’s poetry; hear his aunt tell of dressing him as a girl when he was a tot. If ever there was a priceless gift, this is it.
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