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

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 ...

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 ...

Here The Gift series producer Stanzi Vaubel talks to poet Kwame Dawes, who writes in many voices, and who laughs that this is the curse of the writer. “I live in you, I feel everything,” he ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Poet, playwright, novelist and teacher, Professor Kwame Dawes was recently awarded the 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry. One of the most prestigious fellowships in the world it was ...

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 ...

WordPlay, Young Chicago Authors’ ten year old open mic and workshop series, proudly hosts Kwame Dawes. WordPlay is an open space for teen writers, rhymers, and performers to showcase their work ...