Lecturer IV; Director, Undergraduate Program in Creative Writing; Director, Bear River Writers' Conference
jcodyw@umich.eduOffice Information:
3256 Angell Hall hours: Tuesdays, 1-3 p.m. (via Zoom), and by appt.
Novel and Narrative; English; American; Lecturer; Writing of Poetry; Creative Writing; Poetry and Poetics
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., University of Washington 2004
Current Courses
ENGLISH 424-001
Advanced Poetry Writing
Highlighted Work and Publications
Alive at the Center
Cody Walker with Susan Denning and Daniela Elza
The Pacific Poetry Project’s first volume, Alive at the Center, aims to capture the thriving poetic atmosphere of the Pacific Northwest. It concentrates on the three major cities that define it—Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver B.C. This anthology, compiled and edited by an outstanding poet from each city, is a cultural conversation among the unique urban communities whose perspectives share more than just a common landscape. Alive at the Center features distinctive, contemporary poets who speak to the individual spirits of these Pacific Northwest...
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Shuffleand Breakdown
Cody Walker
Cody Walker's Shuffle and Breakdown, his first collection and a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize in 2005 and 2006, is a work of comic brilliance and devastating irony. From "Abbott and Costello: The Alzheimer's Years" to a series of letters to Whitman from his imagined grandson, this is a wondrous strange book that operates with the precise timing of a great joke, while bracing itself for dissolution and worse.
The Trumpiad
Cody Walker
The new U.S. president doesn't read books, but for everyone else, there's Cody Walker's The Trumpiad, a blistering and hilarious take on America's political collapse. "Key Difference: I wouldn't lump / Trump / in with Hitler and Mussolini. / Trump's hands are littler. (They're teeny.)" The Trumpiad will be published on April 29, 2017, which will mark Trump's 100th day in office. All proceeds will be donated to the ACLU.
