Peepal Tree founder Jeremy Poynting and associate fiction editor Jacob Ross look back on 40 years of publishing Caribbean and ...

In 2010, while teaching at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Kwame Dawes founded the African Poetry Book Fund, which has published and promoted more than 200 collections of new works by living ...

Kwame Dawes is a poet, actor and musician whose work is shaped by a journey that started in Ghana, where he was born, all the way to Jamaica, where he was raised. Dawes, who joined the staff at Brown ...

Kwame Dawes is a poet, actor and musician whose work is shaped by a journey that started in Ghana, where he was born, all the way to Jamaica, where he was raised. Dawes, who joined the staff at Brown ...

Professor of Literary Arts Kwame Dawes began his three-year term as the fourth poet laureate of Jamaica in January, taking on a role that seeks to foster greater appreciation for Jamaican poetry and ...

Jamaica’s new Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, aims to promote poetry across the country during his term from 2025 to 2028. At a ceremony at King’s House, Custos Rotulorum for Kingston, Hon.

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica’s newly appointed Poet Laureate, Professor Kwame Dawes, plans to celebrate and promote the art of poetry throughout the island during his tenure. Custos Rotulorum for ...

PROVIDENCE — Kwame Dawes, a Brown University literary arts professor, has been named poet laureate of Jamaica. As part of his role, Dawes will be charged with “stimulating a greater ...

Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral tradition, folk songs, reggae music and more in his new role as the Caribbean ...

Kwame Dawes has been called the "busiest man in literature" by many other poets and writers. The Ghana-born Jamaican recently accepted the position of editing the "American Life in Poetry" ...

Kwame Dawes, an acclaimed poet, filmmaker, and faculty member of Pacific University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Writing program, has added another prestigious title to his long list of ...