Visiting Writers Series: Kwame Dawes

  • Artist Talk
  • Free Events
  • Butler Arts Center
  • Shelton Auditorium

Visiting Writers Series: Kwame Dawes

  • Artist Talk
  • Free Events
  • Butler Arts Center
  • Shelton Auditorium

Nov 19

Tuesday, November 19 @ 7:30 PM
Shelton Auditorium

This event is free and open to the public.

Kwame Dawes is the author of numerous books of poetry and other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent collection is Sturge Town (Peepal Tree Press, UK 2023). Dawes is a George W. Holmes University Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner. He teaches in the Pacific MFA Program and is the Series Editor of the African Poetry Book Series, Director of the African Poetry Book Fund, and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. He is a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Kwame Dawes is the winner of the prestigious Windham/Campbell Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. In 2022 Dawes was awarded the Order of Distinction Commander class by the Government of Jamaica.

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