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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.
He was subsequently a lecturer in English at the University of Ghana (1960–70). [4] In 1962, he and his Ghanaian wife Sophia, an artist and social worker, had a son Kwame. [5] In 1971, Dawes returned with his family to Jamaica, where he became the executive director of the Institute of Jamaica in Kingston. [4]
The Poetry Foundation is a ... Kwame Dawes, Linh ... The 30,000-volume library presents a wide selection of modern and contemporary poetry in English or translation ...
Peepal Tree Press is a publisher based in Leeds, England which publishes Caribbean, Black British, and South Asian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and academic books. [1] [2] [3] Poet Kwame Dawes has said, "Peepal Tree Press's position as the leading publisher of Caribbean literature, and especially of Caribbean poetry, is unassailable."
Poetry International Web is an international webzine and a poetry archive put together by a collective body of editors around the world and centrally edited in Rotterdam. It was originally launched in 2002. The site presents poetry from many countries in their original languages and in English translation.
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Poetry in Africa details more on the history and context of contemporary poetry on the continent. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Amalion also published The Promise of Hope (2014), the last work of the Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor, who died in the terrorist attack on Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi in 2013, within the African Poetry Book Series project coordinated by the poet Kwame Dawes.