Anthony Walton: podcast appearances and interviews

Anthony Walton, born in 1960, is an American poet and writer. He is the grandson of a Mississippi share-cropper. Walton is known for his authorship of the book The End of Respectability, scheduled for publication in 2024, and Mississippi: An American Journey, published in 1997. Additionally, he has published a chapbook of poems titled Cricket Weather. Walton's work has been widely featured in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies including The New Yorker, Kenyon Review, Oxford American, the New York Times, Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is also the coauthor of Brothers-in-Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, a best-selling book written in collaboration with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and the coeditor of The Vintage Anthology of African American Poetry alongside Michael S. Harper. Currently, Walton serves as a professor and writer-in-residence at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.