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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.
She was one of several poets invited to Buckingham Palace in 2013, where the Queen and Prince Philip honoured the work of contemporary British poetry. [10] In 2017, she was creative associate for the theatre production Ode To Leeds at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. [11] In 2008 she toured the USA with the Fwords Creative Freedom writers. [8]
Kwame Dawes (b. 1962) Joe de Graft (1924–1978) Michael Dei-Anang (1909–1977) Amu Djoleto (b. 1929) Cameron Duodu (b. 1937) K. Ellis Ayitey Komey (1927–1972)
Poetry in Africa details more on the history and context of contemporary poetry on the continent. ... Kwame Dawes, Ghana; Bernard Binlin Dadi ...
Tower Poetry is an organisation affiliated with Christ Church, ... Kwame Dawes and Elise Paschen: 2022 Dream Leo Kang Beevers Erin Hateley Livvy Owen
Despite the deprivations, Grateful Life beat jail and it gave addicts time to think. Many took the place and its staff as inspiration. They spent their nights filling notebooks with diary entries, essays on passages from the Big Book, drawings of skulls and heroin-is-the-devil poetry.
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 ...
Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Kadija Sesay, Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro-Wiwa (flipped eye), anthology with a foreword by Saro-Wiwa's son, Ken Wiwa, including poems by Mutabaruka, Sharan Strange, Chris Abani, Jayne Cortez, Kwame Dawes, Amiri Baraka, Kamau Braithwaite; and poems in Catalan, Scots, Creole, Castilian paying tribute ...