1. Kwame Senu Neville Dawes was born on 28 July 1962 and is a Ghanaian poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina.
15 Facts About Kwame Dawes
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Kwame Dawes is Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and editor-in-chief at Prairie Schooner magazine.
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Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana in 1962 to Sophia and Neville Dawes, and in 1971 the family moved to Kingston, Jamaica, when Neville Dawes became deputy director of the Institute of Jamaica.
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Kwame Dawes studied and taught in New Brunswick, Canada, on a Commonwealth Scholarship.
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From 1992 to 2012, Kwame Dawes taught at the University of South Carolina as a Professor in English, Distinguished Poet in Residence, Director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, and Director of the USC Arts Institute.
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Kwame Dawes was the faculty advisor for the publication Yemassee.
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Kwame Dawes won the 1994 Forward Poetry Prize, Best First Collection for Progeny of Air.
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Kwame Dawes is currently a Chancellor's Professor of English and Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a faculty member of Cave Canem Foundation, and a teacher in the Pacific MFA program in Oregon.
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Kwame Dawes is director of the Calabash International Literary Festival, a yearly event in Jamaica.
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In 2011, Kwame Dawes became editor of literary journal Prairie Schooner.
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In 2016, the event Respect Due: Symposium on the Work of Kwame Dawes featured participants including Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Shara McCallum, Vladimir Lucien, Ishion Hutchinson, Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Robert Lee, and Lorna Goodison.
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In 2018, Kwame Dawes was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
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In 2021, Kwame Dawes succeeded Ted Kooser as host of the news column American Life in Poetry.
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Kwame Dawes established the South Carolina Poetry Initiative's annual book prize competition, and edits the winning manuscripts.
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Kwame Dawes is the founding editor of the African Poetry Book Fund.