Kwame Dawes has traveled to Haiti over the past year ... the boy who covers a jaw full of maggots, and the tall lanky son whose spine gives under the weight of concrete before he is pulled out ...

Born in Ghana in 1962, Kwame Dawes moved to Jamaica in 1971 and spent most of his childhood and early adult life there. As a poet, he is profoundly influenced by the rhythms and textures of that ...

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 ...