About Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic and musician. He is the author of twenty books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. He won the 1994 Forward Poetry Prize, Best First Collection for Progeny of Air. In 2018, Dawes was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2016 his book, Speak from Here to There, a co-written collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella appeared. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern University Press) will appear in 2017. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program. He is Director of the African Poetry Book Fund and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. 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.Browse all poems and texts published on Kwame Dawes
