On March 15, 2021, award-winning poet, author, and editor Kwame Dawes, Ph.D., published his first weekly column as editor of “American Life in Poetry,” a free weekly column for newspapers and online ...

The African Poetry Book Series, made public earlier this week, will feature the work of African poets each year, publishing four titles beginning in 2014. The series was established in connection with ...

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 ...

Poet Kwame Dawes Remembers Kofi Awoonor With Reading of ‘The Weaver Bird’ Wednesday on the PBS NewsHour, poet Kwame Dawes remembers his uncle, Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, who was killed in the ...

When you first talk to Kwame Dawes, it's clear early on that he's been called the "busiest man in literature" for a reason. The Ghana-born, Jamaican poet is the chancellor's professor of English at ...

PLATTSBURGH — Get a hearty bowl of callaloo with bits of August Wilson, Bob Marley and Nebraska with Dr. Kwame Dawes, today at 8 p.m. as part of Black Poetry Day at SUNY Plattsburgh. The Chancellors ...

KEARNEY — Poet Kwame Dawes is the featured guest at the next Reynolds Visiting Writers Series event hosted by the University of Nebraska at Kearney Department of English. He’ll present “What is ...

Widely acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes has been appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2025 to 2028. In the ceremony of investiture, held at King’s House on Wednesday, January 22, 2025, he was ...

It is hard to tell whether in 10 years readers will know what a “drop down menu” is, but that is the beauty and risk of poetry — to find poetry in the present vernacular, and to hope its accuracy and ...

Emmy award-winning poet and writer, Kwame Dawes, presents a talk with readings from his 2010 collection of poems entitled Wheels. Emmy award-winning poet and writer, Kwame Dawes, presents a talk with ...

There is, of course, no hidden chapter in the “Good Book” that explores sandaled Jesus’ fashion rules, but Cornelius Eady in “Easter Shoes” is being funny and deadly serious. The poem takes him back ...

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, ...