Kwame Dawes, an acclaimed poet, filmmaker, and faculty member of Pacific University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Writing program, has added another prestigious title to his long list of multihyphenates.

PROVIDENCE — Kwame Dawes, a Brown University literary arts professor, has been named poet laureate of Jamaica. As part of his role, Dawes will be charged with “stimulating a greater appreciation for ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Kwame Dawes is a Panel Chair for Poetry in the National Book Awards with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2009 Ceremony as a Poet & Writer ...

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.

Foreword / Derek Wolcott -- Introduction / Kwame Dawes and Matthew Shenoda -- Fire psalm / Chris Abani -- Homily / Chris Abani -- From Omni--Albert Murray / Elizabeth Alexander -- A siren patch of ...

Throughout the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Games, Guggenheim fellowship-winning poet Kwame Dawes will be writing verses that capture the spirit of the day's action. In this installment, the poet looks ...

What is required / Paul Allen -- On viewing Roundnice triptych, ca. 1410-1420(?), and viewing Jonathan Green's Seeking at Mepkin / Carol Ann Davis -- Into the forest / Richard Garcia -- October in ...