Walker Dabney Stuart III (born November 4, 1937 Richmond, Virginia) is an American poet.
He graduated from Davidson College, with a BA in English in 1960, and from Harvard University, with an MA in English in 1962. He is professor emeritus of English at Washington and Lee University. His work appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, Southern Review, and Yale Review.
1987 Guggenheim Fellowship Tables, Pinyon Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821561-1-7Family preserve: poems, University of Virginia Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8139-2328-4The man who loves Cézanne: poems, LSU Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8071-2900-5Settlers: poems, Louisiana State University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8071-2406-2Long gone: poems, Louisiana State University Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-8071-2121-4Light years: new and selected poems, Louisiana State University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8071-1898-6Narcissus dreaming: poems, Louisiana State University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-8071-1591-6Don't look back: poems, Louisiana State University Press, 1987, ISBN 978-0-8071-1374-5Common ground: poems, Louisiana State University Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0-8071-1023-2Round and round: a triptych : poems, Louisiana University Press, 1977, ISBN 978-0-8071-0271-8The other hand: poems, Louisiana State University Press, 1974, ISBN 978-0-8071-0076-9A particular place; poems, Knopf, 1969No visible means of support: stories, University of Missouri Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8262-1320-4The way to Cobbs Creek: stories, University of Missouri Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8262-1143-9Nabokov: The Dimensions of Parody, Louisiana State University Press, 1978, ISBN 978-0-8071-0384-5 