[New-Poetry] Affrilachian poetry

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Affrilachian poet starts PLUCK! magazine 
New arts magazine is labor of love 

By Larry Muhammad
lmuhammad at courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal

 

When poet Frank X Walker won a $75,000 literary prize from the esteemed Lannan Foundation in 2005, he vowed to use some of the money to expose other emerging writers of color. 

Now the Danville, Ky., native who coined the term "Affrilachian" for Appalachian residents of African descent -- the word is now in the New Oxford American Dictionary -- has launched PLUCK!, an arts and culture magazine that explores the black aesthetic of the 12-state Appalachian region. 


"Starting this journal is just an extension of continuing to celebrate the true diversity and artistic and literary talent in this region," said Walker, a visiting professor of writing, rhetoric and communications at Transylvania University in Lexington. "The name, PLUCK!, is an old word that means to summon up one's courage, to rouse one's spirits and have resolve in the face of difficulties. I felt like that summed up my vision for the journal." 

 


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