Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana and is a widely acclaimed poet, editor, critic, and musician whose work has brought him global recognition exploring themes such as identity, migration, and the human ...

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 ...

Widely acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes has been appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2025 to 2028. In the ceremony of investiture, held at King’s House on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, he ...

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 ...

Dawes’ newest volume of poems, Sturge Town: Poems (W.W. Norton, 160 pages, $26.99), will be published in the United States in August, and is available for pre-order through Powell’s City of ...

In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Forsyth County Central Library will present "On the Same Poem: Kwame Dawes" at 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Dawes will read his poem "School House," ...

KEARNEY — Poet Kwame Dawes is the featured guest at the next Reynolds Visiting Writers Series event hosted by the University of Nebraska at Kearney Department of English. He’ll present “What ...

Dawes' most recently published work is a book of poems called "Nebraska" (2019), in which odes to the Midwestern landscape and Nebraska traits are settled into the background of the poetry.

PROVIDENCE — Kwame Dawes, a Brown University literary arts professor, has been named poet laureate of Jamaica. As part of his role, Dawes will be charged with “stimulating a greater ...