Kwame Dawes

Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty-five books of poetry and other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent collection, Sturge Town, appeared in the U.S. with Norton in August 2024. George W. Holmes University Professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, Dawes was named the poet laureate of Jamaica this year.