Guilford County Schools High School Poet Laureate Year-end Reading

Hosted by Jennifer Worrells, HS Poet Laureate coordinator and Library Media Specialist at Grimsley High School.

2021 Poetry Judge
J. SCOTT WALKER is an English and creative writing teacher based in Greensboro.  When he’s not teaching he writes songs, plays, and poetry.  A graduate of Appalachian State University and the University of Alaska, his poems have appeared in Town Creek Poetry, Big River Poetry, Cold Mountain Review, and Cirque. The emphasis on place in his work is the natural product of having lived in ten US states including both Carolinas, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Alaska.  He has also traveled extensively outside of the US both in a physical sense and also in his imagination. His collection A Concept of Right Now was published in 2019.

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