Whiting Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 14 (1998) Winner
Anthony Walton
アンソニー・ウォルトン
Ansonī Woruton
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1960-01-01
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Aurora, Illinois → New York → Brunswick, Maine
Career
- Occupations
- poet, writer, professor
- Active Years
- 1994-2024
- Affiliations
- Bowdoin College
- Influenced By
- Wallace Stevens
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Notre Dame | — | — | B.A. | — | United States |
| Brown University | — | — | M.F.A. | — | United States |
University of Notre Dame
Degree:
B.A.
Year of Graduation:
1982
Country:
United States
Brown University
Degree:
M.F.A.
Year of Graduation:
1985
Country:
United States
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Whiting Award | Mississippi: An American Journey | nonfiction | Whiting Foundation | winner |
Whiting Award
1998
Work:
Mississippi: An American Journey
Category:
nonfiction
Organization:
Whiting Foundation
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Cricket Weather
1995 poetryA chapbook of poems.
Mississippi: An American Journey
1997 nonfictionA nonfiction journey along the Mississippi.
raceAmerican culture
The End of Respectability
2024 poetryLatest poetry collection.
Bibliography
- Every Shut Eye Aint Asleep: Anthology Of Poetry by African Americans Since 1945 (Editor) 1994
- Cricket Weather 1995
- Go and Tell Pharaoh with Reverend Al Sharpton, 1996
- Mississippi: An American Journey 1997
- The Vintage Book of African American Poetry (Editor) 2002
- Brothers In Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII's Forgotten Heroes with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 2004
- The End of Respectability 2024
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Blending of poetry and nonfiction
- Recurring Motifs
- racial issuesSouthern American memory
Legacy
Known as an African American poet and writer, serving as writer-in-residence and professor at Bowdoin College. Noted for works addressing racial issues.
Trivia
- Of African American descent, grew up in Aurora, Illinois, with parents from Mississippi.
- Participated in ROTC and wrote for school newspaper at University of Notre Dame.
- Strongly influenced by Wallace Stevens' Collected Poems.