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Jamaica’s Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia “Babsy” Grange has announced that internationally acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes will be the next Poet Laureate of Jamaica. Minister Grange said that Dawes emerged as the most suitable person after a public nomination process, which was followed by a seven-member committee vote administered by the National Library of Jamaica (NLJ). His investiture of as the Poet Laureate of Jamaica for...

Internationally acclaimed poet, Professor Kwame Dawes, will be the next Poet Laureate of Jamaica. Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, disclosed that Professor Dawes emerged as the most suitable person for the...

KEARNEY — Poet Kwame Dawes is the featured guest at the next Reynolds Visiting Writers Series event hosted by the University of Nebraska at Kearney Department of English.

Victorious over the many booby traps that guarded his older brother’s bedroom, a 17-year-old Kwame Dawes perched on the edge of his sibling’s neatly made be

Critic, editor and poet Kwame Dawes, winner of the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and author of the recent collection Sturge Town, reads from his work along with several creative writing seniors. Free tickets required.

WITH the pandemic upending our lives and the challenges of 2021 feeling like the ever-mut...

WITH the pandemic upending our lives and the challenges of 2021 feeling like the ever-mut...

Olympic Games sprint double champion Elaine Thompson-Herah says she is feeling