With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet ...

Poet Kwame Dawes read a collection of his recent poetry for an audience of University students and faculty Wednesday evening. The event kicked off his semester-long residence at the University as part ...

Kwame Dawes joins Kevin Young to read “The Season of Phantasmal Peace,” by Derek Walcott, and his own poem “Before Winter.” Dawes is the author of more than twenty books of poetry ...

Kwame Dawes is director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the University of South Carolina Arts Institute where he also teaches as distinguished poet in residence. Born in 1962 in Ghana ...

Kwame Dawes, Jamaica’s poet laureate and co-founder of the Calabash Literary Festival, says this year’s event — held in ...

Professor of Literary Arts Kwame Dawes began his three-year term as the fourth poet laureate of Jamaica in January, taking on a role that seeks to foster greater appreciation for Jamaican poetry and ...

Kwame Dawes was Ted Kooser’s choice to continue promoting poetry through the American Life in Poetry column. Marjie Ducey Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old poet, read an original work at President ...

Kwame Dawes has traveled to Haiti over the past year to report on and write poems about people’s experiences after the earthquake. Jeffrey Brown reports. Finally tonight: a conversation with ...

The series was established in connection with University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s African Poetry Book Fund, and announced by Ghanian poet Kwame Dawes, who is based in Nebraska. Dawes is a ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, plans to celebrate and promote the art of poetry throughout the island during his tenure. Custos Rotulorum ...

Kwame Dawes, a 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize winner, teaches English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His latest book, co-authored with John Kinsella, is “unHistory.” New Kid Dept.