Frank X Walker (born June 11, 1961) is an African American poet from Danville, Kentucky.

Walker is a charter member of the Mu Theta chapter of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity at the University of Kentucky.

A founding member of the Affrilachian Poets (started 1991),[6] he also launched (as editor and publisher) PLUCK!

[10] Walker has published five volumes of poetry; Buffalo Dance: The Journey of York won the 2004 Lillian Smith Book Award.

[12] Walker is founder and executive director of the Bluegrass Black Arts Consortium, Program Coordinator of the University of Kentucky's King Cultural Center, and assistant director of Purdue University's Black Cultural Center.