Over the spring semester, prestigious national and international organizations recognized Brown faculty for their research, ...

Peepal Tree founder Jeremy Poynting and associate fiction editor Jacob Ross look back on 40 years of publishing Caribbean and ...

UNL professor and novelist Timothy Schaffert recently took over as editor of the Prairie Schooner, the university's ...

Kwame Dawes and Sheryl Lee Ralph at Calabash 2025 in Treasure Beach, Jamaica Calabash There is a fine line between Calabash and a cult. After all, there exist legions who will not miss the ...

In 2010, while teaching at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Kwame Dawes founded the African Poetry Book Fund, which has published and promoted more than 200 collections of new works by living ...

Kwame Dawes is a poet, actor and musician whose work is shaped by a journey that started in Ghana, where he was born, all the way to Jamaica, where he was raised. Dawes, who joined the staff at Brown ...

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 ...

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 for ...

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 ...

Kwame Dawes has been called the "busiest man in literature" by many other poets and writers. The Ghana-born Jamaican recently accepted the position of editing the "American Life in Poetry" ...

Seibles joins a pantheon of contemporary poets that this year now includes Elizabeth Alexander, Cornelius Eady and Kwame Dawes; past honorees include Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni and Rita Dove.