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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
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)
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 ...
Hilda Raz (born 1938) is an American poet, educator, and editor. Raz is the author of over 14 collections of poetry and creative nonfiction. [1] From 1987 to 2010, Raz was the editor-in-chief of Prairie Schooner and English and women's studies professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Agbaakin is the author of the Sign of the Ram.His writing has received scholarship and support from Bread Loaf, Tin House, [7] and Key West Literary Seminar. In 2020, he won second place of the Grist Journal ProForma Contest; [8] as well as 2020 finalist for the Black Warrior Review contest, [9] Chad Walsh Chapbook Series (Beloit Poetry Journal), and the Sillerman First Book Prize for African ...
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