Kwame Dawes - Wikipedia
Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962) is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, [1] and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln [2] [3] and editor-in-chief at Prairie Schooner magazine. [4] [5]
Brown University Professor of Literary Arts Kwame Dawes named ...
1 day ago · PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Kwame Dawes, a Brown University professor of literary arts, has been named poet laureate of Jamaica. As poet laureate, Dawes is “charged with stimulating a greater appreciation for Jamaican poetry, while trying to develop mass appeal for poetry as an art and medium for developing and disseminating our cultural …
Kwame Dawes | The Poetry Foundation
Kwame Dawes serves as the poet laureate of Jamaica as well as the director of the African Poetry Book Fund. He is the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska.
Brown professor Kwame Dawes to serve as poet laureate of ...
17 hours ago · 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
Professor Kwame Dawes is Jamaica’s fourth poet laureate
3 days ago · 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 ...
About the Author – Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. In 2016 his book, Speak from Here to There, a co-written collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella appeared.
Kwame Dawes – Still the Busiest Man in Literature
"If the poem came from God don’t ask me to edit God." "he ]Kwame] makes these beautiful temporary homes in the language itself, and he sort of stills the language so that it reminds us that a poem can be a home for us, even temporarily - a home that we make out of breath and carefully crafted syllables." Tess Taylor. All Things Considered, NPR.
Kwame Dawes | Literary Arts | Brown University
Kwame Dawes is the author of thirty books of poetry and other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent collections are Mortality (Peepal Tree Press, 2025) and Sturge Town (WW Norton, 2024), longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Prize 2025.