In 2003, Governor Bob Riley appointed Sue Brannan Walker of Mobile Poet Laureate of Alabama. She is currently serving her second consecutive term through 2012.
Walker is known nationally and internationally for her poetry, as well as for her critical articles on poets and writers such as James Dickey, Marge Piercy, Margaret Atwood, and Carson McCullers. As editor and publisher of the journal, Negative Capability, she has published numerous Alabama poets and writers, providing them a greater audience and some of them their first opportunity to publish. 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 journals in the early 1990s.
Her poetry, prose, and community service have deservedly garnered numerous awards, grants, and fellowships. She has published five volumes of poetry with a sixth due out this fall. Her latest collection is Blood Will Bear Your Name, which won Book of the Year from Alabama State Poetry Society and which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Walker also serves as the chair of the University of South Alabama English Department and as president of the Forum's board of directors.
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