Poet Kwame Dawes read a collection of his recent poetry for an audience of University students and faculty Wednesday evening.

A culture of restraint and decorum in Nebraska weighs on the speaker in Kwame Dawes’s poem.

Kwame Dawes and the Poetry Foundation in Chicago have reintroduced the weekly "American Life in Poetry" column as part of a partnership with the University of Nebraska Lincoln.

Emmy award-winning poet and writer, Kwame Dawes, presents a talk with readings from his 2010 collection of poems entitled Wheels.

Writer Kwame Dawes has traveled to Haiti over the past year to report on and write poems about people's experiences after the earthquake.

In celebration of what would have been revolutionary Jamaican singer Bob Marley’s 73rd birthday, the Folger Shakespeare Library hosted renowned Jamaican poets Kwame Dawes and Safiya Sinclair for a ...

For many of us who live in land locked states, an encounter with the tumult and power of the sea can be a bracing encounter with nature. Here, in a poem I came across in a clever new anthology ...

Kwame Dawes. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $20 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-55659-423-6 This first U.S. selection from the Jamaica-bred, Nebraska-based poet (he also has a reputation in ...