2017 Locating Glinda of Oz: A memoir section

My first book, Six Months Rent, developed a more contained poetic voice.

Pregnant Poems exploreS open and overlapping fragments as a cognitive/creative stance.

Into the Peculiar Dark, my third volume, worked with binary oppositions. Here was death and new life. I began also to work more with the mixing of aesthetic forms.

"semyon" by Anne F. Walker originally appeared in Gay and Lesbian Writing in Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 159 (Winter 1998): 140-140.

"the void looks back" by Anne F. Walker originally appeared in francophone / anglophone. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 175 (Winter 2002): 131-132. Necessary Crimes by Catherine Hunter Asphodel by Michael Redhill Swimming Among the Ruins by Susan Gillis Beautiful Sadness by Lesley Choyce Burning Bush by Elizabeth Brewster

The Exit Show continued to explore aesthetic synthesis, the change being that the subject matter itself is also to do with plurality, with shifting heteronormative images. Moving around into various narrative stances, with various aesthetic tools, helps me to understand a more complicated, plural, model of the world. I see value in a tremendous range of forms and explorations. Rather than link myself with one particular school of poetics, I honor aesthetic diversity and utilize fusion.

"Fear of Doorknobs" by Anne F. Walker originally appeared in Canada Reads. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 193 (Summer 2007): 131-133. Flesh, A Naked Dress by Susan Andrews Grace (Author) The Clichéist by Amanda Lamarche A Plot of Light by Anne F. Walker and Susan McCaslin over the roofs of the world by Olive Senior and Anne F. Walker

"the edge of knowing" a review for Canadian Literature: Terry Watada’s Festival of the Dead, Christine Smart’s Decked and Dancing: Poems, and Laurie Kruk’s Loving the Alien. printed in issue 197 (Summer 2008, "Predators & Gardens"), http://www.canlit.ca/reviews-review.php?id=14136, 2008

... an entirely new approach to literary study, something really new and different ...close readings informed by principles regarding the links between language and contemporary urban society that resonated strongly with her audience. Her aesthetic analysis of forms and language of works of selected contemporary Chicano and African American poets made a powerful and persuasive case for the artistic qualities of texts that others could easily overlook. Walker is an original who is working a literary landscape that is one she has discovered and one for which she designed at UC Berkeley a Ph.D dissertation that connects Social Geography, American Literature, Comparative Literature and Ethnic Studies. In American Urban Poetics she is bringing together theories, texts, and social contexts in ways that draw upon Donna Haraway's understanding of "situated knowledge" which enables her to explore the ways in which things are constantly shifting in relation to others. In the contemporary urban setting, the artist does not capture and hold people, objects, ideas, and words in place but lets us see them in moving relation to each other--Emory Elliott, University of California

in the Echo of your name 1, 2 and 3

Love Poems #2, #10 and #13

Alphabet Walker: a three-part review for lipstik indie The QWERTY Institute of Cosmetic Typographical Enhancements Author: Angela Szczepaniak Publisher: BookThug 2012 Cost: $25 CDN Where to buy: http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=201106&cat=95 The Apothecary Author: Lisa Robertson Publisher: BookThug 2007 Cost: $12 CDN Where to buy: http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=361 FIELDNOTES, a forensic Author: Kate Eichhorn Publisher: BookThug 2010 Cost: $18 CDN Where to buy: http://www.bookthug.ca/proddetail.php?prod=201017

Winter Poems #1 & #2

Whitewashing the Ceaseless Mull

Pregnant Poem # 34 (eternal)

Walker’s are wonderful books as well. She is an astute observer of social sites, social spaces and she has a strong commitment to creating such sites as places in which people can flourish. Walker has credentials and credibility as a poet. –Lyn Hejinian These poems are fragile beauties, reflecting their subject matter--the transition from tangible physical connection to absence and loss. Walker's choice images, rhythms, syntax, and lineage are surprising and perfect, terse and contained. But by these boundaries, she's created opening after opening, so that this slim volume feels weighty and vast in its reach and significance. Sensual and intimate, when the light of any action ceases, helps the reader articulate their own journey of longing and grief. –Dawn Trook Anne Walker's When the Light of Any Action Ceases collects poems of departure. There is never just one ending in love. Walker explores the small departures of love wherein one prepares for the true conclusion. These poems of endings offer moments of insight into a self layered with the landscape of another. The lover leaves an impression in the sheets, the air of the room, and the self in Walker's careful image poems. –Jenny Sampirisi

16 pages published: “Lunar Notes: An Interview with Featured Writer Anne F. Walker” (https://nightmusicjournal.com/2017/05/10/lunar-notes-an-interview-with-featured-writer-anne-f-walker/), Poetry ("light edged Valentine's,” "Voices 1," and "About your first Wife (It alters)"), and Creative Nonfiction (six pages from if a book is a map: grief, recovery and hurtling forward from "Day 5: Hurtling," "Day 7. the fields again / i want," and "Day 4. swimming"), Night Music Journal, Spring issue

I have 16 pages of interview, poetry, and creative non-fiction in this downloadable issue.

This is the facebook event page for the reading part of the workshop and reading at UC Merced, February 2017

My poems “First” and “on green grass” published in this anthology.