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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.
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."
Neville Dawes (16 June 1926 – 13 May 1984) was a novelist and poet born in Nigeria of Jamaican parentage. He was the father of poet and editor Kwame Dawes . Biography
The co-founders of Calabash in 2001 were novelist Colin Channer, poet Kwame Dawes and producer Justine Henzell, three Jamaicans with the aim of creating a literary festival "with roots in Jamaica and branches reaching out into the wider world".
Poet and editor Kwame Dawes directed the African Poetry Book Fund and produced a series of chapbooks. [11] [12] Joseph A. Ushie at the University of Uyo English Department, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, said that "Modern written African poetry has a double heritage — pre-colonial and Western. As in most post-colonial situations, the tilt ...
Kwame Dawes, editor, Wheel and Come again: An Anthology of Reggae Poetry, Fredericton, New Brunswick: Goose Lane. Louis Dudek, The Caged Tiger. Montreal: Empyreal Press. [1] John Glassco, Selected Poems with Three Notes on the Poetic Process. Ottawa: Golden Dog Press) Elisabeth Harvor, The Long Cold Green Evenings of Spring
Kooser's most recent books are Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems and Red Stilts (2020). He founded and hosted the newspaper project "American Life in Poetry". [ 12 ] In 2020, Kooser chose Kwame Dawes , a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets , to be his successor as of January 1, 2021. [ 13 ]
Forward Poetry Prize (United Kingdom, Best First Collection): Kwame Dawes, Progeny of Air (Peepal Tree) T. S. Eliot Prize (United Kingdom and Ireland): Paul Muldoon , The Annals of Chile Whitbread Award for poetry: James Fenton , Out of Danger