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 ...

The introduction’s author, Kwame Dawes, is George W ... Pete Ricketts expects the president will compensate farmers if they suffer due to tariffs: “He said, ‘Hey, look, there's going ...

Using Kwame’s sympathetic first-person POV as a reluctant hero struggling to express his grief and connect with his Ghanaian heritage, Farmer deftly weaves together an inclusive tale of ...

Poet Kwame Dawes Remembers Kofi Awoonor With Reading of ‘The Weaver Bird’ Wednesday on the PBS NewsHour, poet Kwame Dawes remembers his uncle, Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, who was killed in the ...

Kwame Dawes is a distinguished poet in Residence, Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts and founder and executive director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative. He is the director of the ...