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 ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—International award-winning poet, playwright and author Kwame Dawes brings literary depth and insight to Mississippi State as writer-in-residence, an annual program hosted by the ...

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 ...

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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 to his long list of multihyphenates.

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 appreciation 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 ...

When I think of Nebraska poems, I mostly think of Ted Kooser and “So This Is Nebraska,” which celebrates the slow vastness of the state with an assertive universal and personal “you.” This poem by ...

Last April, I found myself on an airplane en route to the annual Houston IFest, my CD player whirring out Bob Marley songs from the Kaya collection so that I could brush up on my reggae. The theme for ...

In “Beachcomber Nocturne,” Lupita Eyde-Tucker beautifully wrestles with the complex relationship that we sometimes have with nature, by first acknowledging that there is a strange colonizing impulse ...

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 & Writer ...