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Kwame Dawes

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Kwame Dawes's debut novel She’s Gone (Akashic) was the winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award (Debut Fiction). He is the author of twenty-one books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. In 2016, his book Speak from Here to There, a cowritten collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella, was released along with When the Rewards Can Be So Great: Essays on Writing and the Writing Life, which Dawes edited. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testament, was published in 2017. His awards include the Forward Poetry Prize, the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, the Musgrave Silver Medal, several Pushcart Prizes, the Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and an Emmy Award. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and is Chancellor Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. Dawes serves as the associate poetry editor for Peepal Tree Press and is director of the African Poetry Book Fund. He is series editor of the African Poetry Book Series—the latest of which is New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)—and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. Dawes is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2018 was elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Kwame Dawes Books

Sturge Town: Poems book cover

Sturge Town: Poems

Kwame Dawes
Accra Noir (Akashic Noir) book cover

Accra Noir (Akashic Noir)

Nana-Ama Danquah
Bivouac book cover

Bivouac

Kwame Dawes
When the Rewards Can Be So Great book cover

When the Rewards Can Be So Great

Kwame Dawes
Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean book cover

Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean

Peekash Press
Go de Rass to Sleep: (A Jamaican translation) book cover

Go de Rass to Sleep: (A Jamaican translation)

Adam Mansbach
Duppy Conqueror book cover

Duppy Conqueror

Kwame Dawes
Seeking book cover

Seeking

Kwame Dawes
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival book cover

So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival

Colin Channer
She's Gone book cover

She's Gone

Kwame Dawes
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