Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Kwame Dawes (b. 1962) Joe de Graft (1924–1978)
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]
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.
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 ...
Ian Hamilton, editor, The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry in English, New York: Oxford University Press [25] Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman, a study of Sylvia Plath; Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook; Carl Woodring, editor, Columbia History of British Poetry, New York: Columbia University Press [26]
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 .