Jason Gordy Walker

Poet

AL
Alabama US

Author's Bio

Jason Gordy Walker is a poet, writer, translator, and critic who has taught at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and the University of Florida, worked with literary journals such as Birmingham Poetry Review, poemmemoirstory (now Nelle), and Subtropics, and placed writing with a variety of venues both online and in print. His translations of poems from the Norwegian of Rune Christiansen are published in B O D Y, BPR, Cordite Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, and Subtropics. He reviews books for Asymptote's What's New in Translation, BPR, and Alabama Writers' Forum. Other reviews and interviews appear or are forthcoming in AWF's First Draft, Blackbird, Poetry Northwest, Rain Taxi Review of Books, and elsewhere. New suites of his poems are forthcoming in Cutleaf and table//FEAST. 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
The Southern Poetry Anthology, Vol. X: Alabama (Texas Review Press, 2023)
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The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology (Lamar University Literary Press, 2016)
Journals:
Atlanta Review
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Birmingham Arts Journal
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Cellpoems
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Confrontation
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Delta Poetry Review
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Louisiana Literature
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Measure
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One Art
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Pembroke Magazine
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The Inflectionist Review
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Town Creek Poetry
Prizes won: 

Scholarships from The New York State Summer Writers Institute, Poetry by the Sea: A Global Conference, The West Chester University Poetry Conference (twice awarded), Auburn Writers Conference, National Graduate Creative Writing Conference at The University of West Georgia, Table Rock Writers Workshop. Won the Barksdale-Maynard Prize for Poetry at The University of Alabama-Birmingham. 2025 February Artist-in-Residence at Newnan ArtRez.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Inger Christensen, Claudia Emerson, Jon Fosse, Olav H. Hauge, Roy Jacobsen, Donald Justice, Franz Kafka, Han Kang, Halldór Laxness, Denise Levertov, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Edith Södergran, Yoko Tawada, Tomas Tranströmer, Enrique Vila-Matas. Robert Herrick.
What I'm reading now: 
The Widow’s Crayon Box by Molly Peacock, Evening Land (aftonland) by Pär Lagerkvist, tr. W. H. Auden & Leif Sjöberg

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
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Last update: Sep 29, 2026