Kwame Dawes has published books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. His poetry includes Wisteria: Poems From the Swamp Country, Impossible Flying, Back of Mount Peace, Hope’s Hospice, Wheels, and Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems, among many others. His novels are She’s Gone and Bivouac, and his non-fiction collections are A Far Cry From Plymouth Rock: A Personal Narrative and Fugue and Other Writings. A widely anthologized poet, Dawes has received the Forward Prize for Poetry, the Hollis Summers Prize for Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Musgrave Silver Medal for contribution to the Arts in Jamaica, and the Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Award for service to the arts in South Carolina. He won an Emmy and a Webby for LiveHopeLove, an interactive website based on the Kwame Dawes Pulitzer Prize Center project HOPE: Living and Loving with AIDS in Jamaica. Dawes is co-founder and programming directory of the Calabash International Literary Festival and on the faculty of both the Pacific MFAWriting Program and Cave Canem. He is currently the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and Chancellor’s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska.

Monday, September 14th, 2015

This webinar was moderated by Professor Maryemma Graham, Institute Director.

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