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.

Then, they began to run. No one was laughing. Poem copyright ©2022 by Ladan Osman, “Sun to God” from The Rumpus, April 26, 2022. Poem reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher.

A Pacific University Instructor Is Jamaica’s New Poet Laureate Kwame Dawes, who teaches in PU’s graduate writing program, was awarded the three-year post that began in spring.