Kwame Dawes

Kwame Senu Neville Dawes is a Ghanaian 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.

“The Prodigal Converses with the Land,” a Poem by Kwame Dawes

From the Collection “Sturge Town”

August 21, 2024 By Kwame Dawes

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Kwame Dawes on The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

Dawes, the great poet and critic, reflects on the legacy of the rhetorician and abolitionist Douglass, in the introduction to a new edition of his monumental autobiography

February 6, 2023 By Kwame Dawes

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