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 ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Kwame Dawes and Lorna Dawes know there is a wealth of poetry from African authors out there. Thousands of poems, they say, sit in universities and libraries ...

The other seven in the section are all American including poet Kwame Dawes and playwright Katori Hall. Launched in 1870 to develop the arts and sciences, the association has 14,500 members in five ...

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 ...

RI BUSINESS Brown professor Kwame Dawes to serve as poet laureate of Jamaica Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry ...

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" ...

Norfolk's Tim Seibles, retired ODU professor and a teacher at the Muse Writers Center, has received a lifetime achievement award. The Furious Flower Poetry Center, at James Madison University ...

CHARLESTON — After being cut from Governor Nikki Haley’s inauguration in 2015, former South Carolina poet laureate Marjory Wentworth’s poem “One River, One Boat” serves as the titular ...

Dawes’ newest volume of poems, Sturge Town: Poems (W.W. Norton, 160 pages, $26.99), will be published in the United States in August, and is available for pre-order through Powell’s City of ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Kwame Dawes is a Panel Chair for Poetry in the National Book Awards with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Ceremony as a Poet ...