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

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" ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kwame Dawes, a 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize winner, teaches English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His latest book, co-authored with John Kinsella, is “unHistory.” What Trump Missed at ...

June 23, 2024 at 6:56 pm PDT. Kwame Dawes, an acclaimed poet, filmmaker, and faculty member of Pacific University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Writing program, has added another prestigious title ...

In his new novel-in-verse, “The Door of No Return,” the Newbery Medal-winning author works hard to show that white people weren’t the only ones perpetuating an unjust system. By Kwame Dawes ...

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 ...