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 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 ...

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 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 ...

This poem by Kwame Dawes, however, aptly describes the way an outsider beyond Kooser’s all-encompassing “you” might feel in a state with a preserved culture of restraint and decorum ...

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 born in Ghana and is a widely acclaimed ... His achievements span multiple genres, including poetry collections such as Progeny of Air and City of Bones: A Testament, which have ...

Here The Gift series producer Stanzi Vaubel talks to poet Kwame Dawes, who writes in many voices ... Here he shares a poem called “Impossible Flight” in which he observes the 1980 Revolution ...

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 ...

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," which was selected for the On the Same Poem ...

PROVIDENCE — Kwame Dawes, a Brown University literary ... was long-listed for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Dawes is Jamaica’s fourth poet laureate.