Sue Brannan Walker

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Books

Whatever Remembers Us: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry, Negative Capability, Mobile, Alabama, 2007, (Poetry)
Order your copy. In the Realm of Rivers: Alabama's Mobile-Tensaw Delta, NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Alabama, 2005, (Nonfiction)
Order your copy. It's Good Weather for Fudge: Conversing with Carson McCullers, NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Alabama, 2003, (Poetry)
Order your copy. Blood Will Bear Your Name, Amherst Artists and Writer's Press, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2001 (Poetry)
Order your copy. The Appearance of Green, Nightshade Press. Troy, Maine, 1995 (Poetry)
Order your copy. Life on the Line: Selections on Words & Healing. Eds. Sue Walker & Rosaly Roffman. Mobile: Negative Capability Press, 1992
Order your copy. Ways of Knowing: Essays on Marge Piercy. Eds. Sue Walker & Gene Hamner. Mobile: Negative Capability Press, 1991.
Seriously Meeting Karl Shapiro. Ed. Sue Walker. Mobile: Negative Capability Press, 1993.
Shorings. Fullerton: South Coast Press, California State University, 1992.

Traveling My Shadow. Mobile: Negative Capability Press, 1982.

Claudel, Calvin. Louisiana Creole Poems. Ed. Sue Walker. Mobile: Negative Capability Press, 1981.

Anthologies

Work That Has Appeared In Anthologies Includes:

Becoming a Published Writer. Ed. Sheila Seifert. On-line book. ISBN 1-894638-57-3. (2004). 80-83.

"A Woman Redressing Cells." The Best of After Office Hours. Eds. Roy M. Pitkin & Rebecca D. Rinehart. The American College of Obstretricians and gynecologists, 274.

"Teaching English 101" The Sampler 35( Fall 2003), v. 46.

"Marriage Like Grandma's Chickens," The Sampler 35: (Fall 2003), v 46.

"Lord, Love a Duck." Moments With Eugene. Semmes: KaliOka Press, 159-163

"The Unwritten Language of Bone." The Sampler. 29 Spring 1997)

"Reasons . . ." Our Mothers Our Selves. Eds. Karen J. Donnelly and J.B. Bernstein. Westport Connecticut: Bergin & Garvey, 1996, 87.

"Wake-up Call" Hot Flashes. Ed., Lynne Taetzach. Boston: Faber & Faber, 1995, 151- 156.

"Reasons To Find My Mother," "Second-Hand Dealer," "The Failure of Fantasy"

"Easter and All That Jazz" In Seven South Coast Poets. Fullerton: South Coast Press (California State University), 1995. 36-40.

"The Last Testament" Immortelles. New Orleans: Xavier University Press.

"Making Time for Writing." Margaret Atwood. Ed. Earl G. Ingersoll. Ontario: Ontario Review Press, 1990. 171-77.

"Beneath the Appearance of Green: Van Gogh, Saint Remy, and Beyond," "Second Hand Dealer," "Inside McCullers Sad Cafe." (Poems) Alabama Poets: A Contemporary Anthology. Ed. Ralph Hammond. Livingston: Livingston University Press. 154.

"Sue Walker" Alabama Scrapbook. Eds. Ellen Sullivan and Marie Stokes Jemison. Huntsville: Honeysuckle, 1988. 145-7. Top of the Lines: The Grand Prize, and First and Second Place Manuscripts from the 1988 Writer's Digest Writing Competition, Writer's Digest, Cincinnati, Ohio.

"Why Is A Big Question," (Essay), "Bone Bearers," "Invocation to a Cow," "To Zelda," "Anais Nin: Talking in the Dark," "Anniversary Poem," (Poems).

Baker's Dozen. Eds. Jeri Beck and Ann George. Birmingham: Druid Press, 1988. 87-92.

"Words Alter the Reality of Things," (Essay); "Reality Is What I Make It" (Poem). The Poet's Job: To Go Too Far. Ed. Margaret Honton, Columbus: Sophia Books, 1985. 128-129.

"To Mama." (Poem) Perspectives on a Grafted Tree. Ed. Patricia Irwin Johnson. Fort Wayne: Perspectives Press, 1983. 118.

Critical Articles

"Woman as Nature / Nature as Woman: Interiority and Exteriority, Psychic Life, The Environment, and the Deep Ecology of James Dickey." The South Carolina Review 37.2 (2004) 38-43.

"That Snake, James Dickey, and the World in a Word." James Dickey Newsletter 19:2 (Spring 2003), 12-17.

"The Universe Will Tell you Where You Are: Nails, Glasses, Navigator, Earth, Sky, Sextant, Self in James Dickey's Alnilham." James Dickey Newsletter

Peer Reviewed and Solicited Material:

[M]Other: Laughing As She Plays. The Panhandler 36 (Spring 2001) 33-42.

"(Re)conceiving Nature: The Chiasmic Deep Ecology of James Dickey's "Deborah, Moon, Mirror, Right Hand Rising." James Dickey Newsletter. Vol 17.2 (Spring 2001) 2-8

"Marge Piercy" Dictionary of Bibliography: American Novelists Since World War II. ( 6th Series) Eds. James R. Giles and Wanda H. Giles. Farmington Hills, Mi. Bruccoli Clark Layman, Inc. The Gale Group, 2000, 240-251.

"(Dis)qualifications: A Belle Don't Wear No Size Eight Shoe" on Carson McCullers. Carson McCullers Newsletter, No. 2 (1999) 5-9.

"Learning Experience." Masterplots II: Poetry Series Supplement. Salem Press, January 1999, 3138-3140.

"Playing With Dolls: Girls Male-Imagine In James Dickey's Puella. James Dickey Newsletter. Vol. 15:1, Fall 1998, 2-10.

"The Being of Illness: The Language of Being Ill," Flannery O'Connor Bulletin. Vol. 25, 33-61.

"Marge Piercy: Gone To Soldiers" Masterplots: Women's Literature Ed. Frank Magill, Pasadena: Salem Press. 924-928.

"Carson McCullers: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter" Masterplots: Women’s Literature. Ed. Frank Magill. Pasadena: Salem Press. 999-1002.

"Undiscovered Countries: Herland, Milledgeville and Beyond," A Study of Flannery O'Connor and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Connecticut Review, Vol XV. 2, 91-99.

Richard Moore As Maustier And Sonneteer," Light: A Quarterly of Humorous, Occasional, Ephemeral & Light Verse, Spring, 1993, NO. 5, 31-33.

"Light and Lupus: The Sun As Metaphor in Flannery O'Connor's 'Greenleaf'" Chattahoochee Review, 1991.

"Richard Eberhart." Critical Survey of Poetry: English Language Series, Revised Edition., 1992. Pasadena: Salem Press, 1055-1064.

"Richard Eberhart: The Fury of Ariel Bombardment" Masterplots II: Poetry, Ed. Frank N. Magill, 830-832.

"Peter Viereck: Archer In The Marrow: The Applewood Cycles, 1967-1987," Masterplots II: Poetry. Ed. Frank N. Magill, 101-105.

"An Overview of Marge Piercy," Ways of Knowing: Essays on Marge Piercy. Mobile: Negative Capability Press, 1991.

"Not Like Other People: A Survey of Gulf Coast Literature, 1838-1989." Alabama English 2.1 (1990) 5-17.

"Beside the Tawny River: Literary Mobile." Xavier Review 5. 1-2 (1986)

"Play Precious Play: Carson McCullers' Transitional Music." New Laurel Review 12 (1982) 31-6.

"The Link in the Chain Called Love: A Look At Carson McCullers' Novels." The Mark Twain Journal 18 (1976)

Articles and Reviews

"The Poet's Perspective," Becoming a Published Writer. Ed. Sheila Seifert. One Line Book, ISBN 1-894638-57-3, 80-83.

"True-to-Life or As-Told-To Stories." Becoming a Published Writer. Ed. Sheila Seifert. One Line Book, ISBN 1-894638-57-3, 199.

Review of Ralph Hammond's Personal Encounters. First Draft 8:3 (Spring 2002) 18-19.

Biography of Carson McCullers. Encyclopedia of Literature (On-line)

Biography of Marge Piercy, Encyclopedia of Literature (On-line)

"Memoir: All The Lost Girls: Tapping into the Power of Form" Mobile Press Register, Sunday, October 8, 2000.

Review of Patricia Doherty's Marge Piercy: A Bibliography for the Bulletin of Bibliography.

"Eugene Walter: Putting Us In Our Place." First Draft. Vol. 5:2, Summer 1998, 20-21.

"Surviving Breast Cancer." Mobile Bay Monthly. December 1997.

"Dinner on the River" Teaching Composition With Literature: Writing Exercises And Ideas. Ed. Dana Gioia. 6th Edition. New York: Harper Collins, 1995. 3-6.

"Shouldn't We Know What Can We Say to Our Children," Accountability in Writing, Ed. Kerin R. Kelsey, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw Hill, 151-154.

"Can Robinson Crusoe Cut It in Small Press" COSMEP Newsletter. 23.9, 1992. 8

"Mobile Schools: A Grass-Roots Effort." Mobile Bay Monthly Jan (1988) 34 ff.

"That's Just the Way People Are . . . That's Just How It Is." Review of Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg. Airwave 5, (1988)

"Making the Past Walk Through the Present." Review of Marge Piercy's Gone to Soldiers. Airwave 9. 29 (1987)

"More Americans Recognize McDonald's Hamburgers Than The National Anthem." Review of Thomas McGuane's To Skin A Cat. Airwave 8.4 (1986).

"Georgia House Remembers" Mobile Bay Monthly Apr (1986) 31 ff.

"Saying It Straight: Writing By Ordinary People." Ed. Clark Sturges. Review of Hard Row to Hoe: Reviews From Rural America. Oct (1986) 2 ff.

Review of Lives of the Poets by E.L. Doctorow. Airwave 1 April (1985).

Review of Black Jack in Literary Magazine Review 3 91983) 3-6.

"Mardi Gras: The Merging of Mind and Mask" Alabama Sun 1.6 (1981) 2-6.

One-Act Play

The Light Guitar: A One-Woman, One Act Play on the Life of Madame Octavia LeVert. By Sue Walker. Dir. Fred Baldwin. Firehouse Theater, Mobile. Dec 4-8, 1991.

The play won the Alabama Writers' Conclave Play-Writing Competition in 1989 and was published in The Alalitcom in 1990. The play is still being performed. This play has been performed in several Southern cities since its original date of performance.

Poetry

Poems have been published in such journals as:

Alalitcom, Aura, Birmingham Arts Journal, Black Willow, Blue Unicorn, Caesura, Cafe Solo, California Quarterly, Carson McCullers Newsletter, Callapooya Collage, Chattahoochee Review, Circus Maximus, Connecticut Review, Cotton Boll, Croton Review, Descant, Doggerel, Elk River Review, Freshman English News, Gryphon, Half Tones To Jubilee, Jabberwocky, James Dickey Newsletter, Journal of Medical Humanities, Kalliope, Kentucky, Louisiana Literature, Poetry Review, L'Apache, Mad Poets Review, Mediphors, Mobile Bay Monthly, New Collage, New Earth Review, New Kauri, New Laurel Review, The New York Quarterly, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pearl River Review, Peregrin, Piedmont Literary Review, The Pikestaff Forum, Pembroke, Potato Eyes, Poetry Austrian Review, Poets On, Red Dirt, Sandcastle, Scripsit, South Coast Poetry Journal, SunDog, The Cathartic, The Panhandler, Parting Gifts, Pembroke, Pinch Penny, PN Magazine, 1999 Poets Market, The Rolling Coulter, Salome, The South Carolina Review, Sun Dog, The Tempest, Thema, The Woodsrunner, Visions, Voices International, Without Halos, Writer's Digest, Writing Alone and With Others, Xavier Review.

Fiction

"Uncommon Shade." Literary Mobile. Mobile: Negative Capability, (2003) 121-124.

"I Won't Answer if It Calls My Name." Connecticut Review. 23.2 (Fall 2001): 23-30.

"Chasing Rainbows," Mobile Bay Monthly, Mar 1986.

"The Woman at the Station" The Alalitcom, 1984, 29-30.

"Regarding the Sandman" The Azalea City News & Review, 1983, 16.

Musical Recording

Letter to a Confederate Soldier: in Donald Ashwander's Confederate Suite. Paper Bag Players, New York City. Poem set to music. 1984

Works in Progress

A study of deep ecology in James Dickey's work.

A novel on the 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Mobile, Alabama.

A biography of Jefferson Davis in sonnets.

Work on Flannery O'Connor and Kate Chopin.

Miscellaneous poetry and short stories.

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