Anthony Walton

Anthony Walton’s poems have appeared widely, in such magazines and journals as The New Yorker, The American Scholar, The Black Scholar, 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, Kenyon Review, Black Renaissance Noire, Poetry Ireland, Oxford American, Obsidian, Notre Dame Review, The Library of America, and The Academy of American Poets, among many others. He is the author of a chapbook of poems, 1968, and his full-length collection, Celestial Mechanics, will be published in September by Godine. A celebrated writer of prose, he is the author of Mississippi: An American Journey and The End of Respectability. With the late Michael S. Harper, he edited two landmark anthologies, Every Shut-Eye Ain’t Asleep: African American Poetry Since World War II, and The Vintage Anthology of African American Poetry. He teaches at Bowdoin College.