Kwame Dawes

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Nationality American Name Kwame Dawes		Role Poet

Born 28 July 1962Ghana ( 1962-07-28 ) Occupation poet, documentary writer, editor, critic Education University of New Brunswick, University of the West Indies, Jamaica College Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Duppy Conqueror: New and, Bob Marley: Lyrical G, Progeny of Air, Hope's Hospice: And Othe, Natural mysticism Similar People Marjory Heath Wentworth, Catherine Amy Dawson, John Galsworthy

Poet kwame dawes

Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962, Ghana) is an Emmy award-winning poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, 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 and editor-in-chief at Prairie Schooner magazine. New York-based Poets & Writers named Dawes as a recipient of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, which recognises writers who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community.

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Life

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Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana in 1962 to Sophia and Neville Dawes, and in 1971 the family moved to Kingston, Jamaica, when Neville Dawes became deputy director of the Institute of Jamaica. Growing up in Jamaica, Kwame Dawes attended Jamaica College and the University of the West Indies at Mona, where he received a BA degree in 1983. He studied and taught in New Brunswick, Canada, on a Commonwealth Scholarship. In 1992 he earned a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of New Brunswick, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Brunswickan.

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From 1992 to 2012 he taught at the University of South Carolina as a Professor in English, Distinguished Poet in Residence, Director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, and Director of the USC Arts Institute. He was also the faculty advisor for the publication Yemassee. He won the 1994 Forward Poetry Prize, Best First Collection for Progeny of Air. He is currently a Chancellor's Professor of English and Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a faculty member of Cave Canem, and a teacher in the Pacific MFA program in Oregon.

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Dawes collaborated with San Francisco-based writer and composer Kevin Simmonds on Wisteria: Twilight Songs from the Swamp Country, which debuted at London's Royal Festival Hall in 2006, and featured sopranos Valetta Brinson and Valerie Johnson.

Kwame Dawes Judges 2016 The Brunel University African Poetry Prize

In 2009, Dawes won an Emmy Award in the category of New Approaches to News & Documentary Programming: Arts, Lifestyle & Culture. His project documented HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, interspersed with poetry, photography by Andre Lambertson, and music by Kevin Simmonds. The website "Livehopelove.com" is the culmination of his project. He is director of the Calabash International Literary Festival, a yearly event in Jamaica.

In 2014, the African Poetry Book Fund arose with Dawes as the founding editor. He and five other internationally regarded poets serve on the reading board to annually publish The winning manuscript of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, A New and Selected/Collected volume by a major living African poet, The New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Boxset (comprising collected chapbooks of emerging writers with special emphasis on those who have not yet published a full-length collection), and Contemporary works of new poetry by select African poets (solicited and unsolicited manuscripts).

Dawes' poetry collection City of Bones: A Testament recently came out from Northwestern University Press in January of this year.

Poetry

Progeny of Air, Peepal Tree Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-948833-68-7

Resisting the Anomie, Fredericton, 1995, ISBN 978-0-864921-47-5

Prophets, Peepal Tree Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-948833-85-4

Jacko Jacobus, Peepal Tree Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1-900715-06-5

Requiem, Peepal Tree Press, 1996, ISBN 978-1-900715-07-2

Shook Foil, Peepal Tree Press, 1997, ISBN 978-1-900715-14-0

Map-Maker Smith/Doorstop Books, 2000, ISBN 978-1-902382-18-0

Midland. Ohio University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8214-1356-2.

His New and Selected Poems, 1994–2002, Peepal Tree Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-900715-70-6

Bruised Totems, Parallel Press Madison, 2004, ISBN 978-1-893311-48-0

I Saw Your Face, with Tom Feelings, Dial Books, 2005, ISBN 978-0-803718-94-4

Wisteria: Twilight Songs from the Swamp Country, Red Hen Press, 2006, ISBN 978-1-597090-59-9

Impossible Flying, Peepal Tree Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-845230-39-5

Gomer's Song. Akashic Books. 2007. ISBN 978-1-933354-44-6.

Hope's Hospice, Peepal Tree Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-845230-78-4

Back of Mount Peace, Peepal Tree Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84523-124-8

Wheels, Peepal Tree Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84523-142-2

Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems, Copper Canyon Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-55659-423-6

Speak from Here to There, with John Kinsella, Peepal Tree Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-845233-19-8

City of Bones: A Testament, Northwestern University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0810134-62-1

Novels

She's Gone. Akashic Books. 2007. ISBN 978-1-933354-18-7.

Bivouac, Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2010, ISBN 978-1-84523-105-7

Short stories

A Place to Hide and Other Stories, Peepal Tree Press, 2003, ISBN 978-1-900715-48-5

Non fiction

A Far Cry from Plymouth Rock: A Personal Narrative, Peepal Tree Press, 2007, ISBN 978-1-845230-25-8

Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius, Sanctuary, 2002, ISBN 978-1-86074-433-4

Natural Mysticism: Towards a Reggae Aesthetic, Peepal Tree Press, 1999, ISBN 978-1-900715-22-5

Plays

One Love. Methuen. 2001. ISBN 978-0-413-76530-7.

Editor

Kwame Dawes, ed. (1998). Wheel and Come Again: An anthology of Reggae Poetry. Goose Lane Editions.

Kwame Dawes, ed. (2005). Twenty South Carolina Poetry Fellows. Hub City Press. ISBN 978-1891885-39-6.

Kwame Dawes, ed. (2009). Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry. Peepal Tree Press. ISBN 978-1-84523-129-3.

Kwame Dawes, ed. (2009). Fugue and Other Writings. Peepal Tree Press. ISBN 978-1845231-09-5.

Kwame Dawes, Colin Channer, eds. (2010). So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival. Akashic Books. ISBN 978-1-936070-07-7. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Kwame Dawes, eds. (2011). Home Is Where: An Anthology of African American Poetry from the Carolinas. Hub City Press. ISBN 978-1891885-80-8. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Kwame Dawes, Jeremy Poynting, eds. (2011). Hold Me To an Island: Caribbean Place: An Anthology of Writing. Peepal Tree Press. ISBN 978-1-84523-163-7. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Kwame Dawes, ed. (2012). Jubilation!: Poems Celebrating 50 Years of Jamaican Independence. Peepal Tree Press. ISBN 978-1845232-04-7.

Kwame Dawes, ed. (2012). Seven Strong: Winners of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, 2006–2012. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-093-1.

Kwame Dawes, Marianne Kunkel, James Englehardt, eds. (2013). The Prairie Schooner Book Prize: Tenth Anniversary Reader. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0803240-43-8. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Kwame Dawes, Marjory Wentworth, eds. (2013). Seeking: Poetry and Prose Inspired by the Art of Jonathan Green. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1611170-92-4. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani, eds. (2015). Eight New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Boxset. Akashic Books/African Poetry Book Fund. ISBN 978-1617753-55-8. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani, eds. (2016). New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set. Akashic Books/African Poetry Book Fund. ISBN 978-1617754-51-7. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Kwame Dawes, ed. (2016). When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life. Pacific University Press. ISBN 978-0988482-74-6.

Kwame Dawes, ed. (2016). A Bloom of Stones: A Tri-lingual Anthology of Haitian Poems After the Earthquake. Peepal Tree Press. ISBN 978-1845231-92-7.

Kwame Dawes, Matthew Shenoda, eds. (2017). Bearden's Odyssey: Poets Respond to the Art of Romare Bearden. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0810134-89-8. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

South Carolina Poetry Book Prize

Dawes established the South Carolina Poetry Initiative's annual book prize competition, and edits the winning manuscripts.

Julia Koets (2012). Hold like Owls. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-084-9.

Jennifer Pournelle (2011). Excavations: A City Cycle. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-093-1.

Worthy Evans (2010). Green Revolver. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-932-4.

DéLana R. A. Dameron (2009). How God Ends Us. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-832-7.

Ed Madden (2008). Signals. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-750-4.

Ray McManus (2007). Driving Through the Country Before You Are Born. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-702-3.

Susan Meyers (2006). Keep and Give Away. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-57003-670-5.

African Poetry Book Fund

Dawes is the founding editor of the African Poetry Book Fund (APBF). The series itself was started in 2014 and established through the generosity of Laura and Robert F.X. Sillerman. The goal of the APBF is to promote and publicize "the poetic arts through its book series, contests, workshops, and seminars and through its collaborations with publishers, festivals, booking agents, colleges, universities, conferences and all other entities that share an interest in the poetic arts of Africa."

Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani, eds. (2016). New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set. Akashic Books. ISBN 978-1-61775-451-7. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani, eds. (2015). Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set. Akashic Books. ISBN 978-1-61775-355-8. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

Kwame Dawes, Chris Abani, eds. (2014). Seven New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set. Slapering Hol Press. ISBN 978-1-94064-658-9. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

References

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