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The site of the ruined ancestral home of Kwame Dawes's family, in one of the earliest post-slavery free villages in Jamaica, Sturge Town is at once a place of myth and, for Dawes, a metaphor of the journeying that has taken him from Ghana, through Jamaica, and to the United States. The poet ranges through time, pursued by a keen sense of mortality, and engages in an intimate dialogue with the reader-serious, confessional, alarmed, and sometime...

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Supported by the African Poetry Book Fund, Prairie Schooner, and the Library of Congress, the previous volumes have been critically acclaimed, receiving glowing reviews in the New York Times, Poetry Society of America, Kenyon Review, the Washington Post, Shelf Awareness, etc. Both editors are award-winning, well-respected poets/novelists. Dawes teaches at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Abani teaches at Northwestern University. As with pre...

The fourth and final installment in the poetic conversation, begun in 2014, between poets and friends Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella.

This hauntingly beautiful collection of poems is a disarming account of a man consumed by thoughts of home and loss.

The third in a quartet of poem-dialogues between Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella, begun in 2015 with the critically acclaimed 'Speak From Here to There' (2016), and followed by 'A New Beginning' (2018), Tangling With The Epic explores commonalities and difference, of the power of poetry and creativity

This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of eleven new African poets.

The death of a Jamaican man's father raises questions about the father's political endeavors, and about the plight of 1980s Jamaica.Kwame Dawes has been named a 2019 Windham-Campbell Prize Recipient in poetry"Few other novels encapsulate Jamaica's political upheavals so well. Protagonist Ferron Morgan agonizes over his father's death, maybe from a doctor's mistake, maybe from a radical rival's hands. Meanwhile, he's running from everything, in...

This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of ten new African poets.

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Combining poetry, short stories, autobiographical essays, and critical writing, this comprehensive collection grants unrivalled access to an individual's passage through a rural Jamaican childhood, his literary influences, and involvement and frustration with postcolonial politics. In all manners of writing, including pieces that have never seen print before, his range and full vision are finally exposed in this compilation that demonstrativel...

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The poets include: Paul Allen, Jan Bailey, Cathy Smith Bowers, Jessica Bundschuh, Stephen Corey, Robert Cumming, Debra Daniel, Carol Ann Davis, Curtis Derrick, Linda Ferguson, Starkey Flythe, Angela Kelly, John Lane, Susan Ludvigson, Terri McCord, John Ower, Ron Rash, Paul Rice, Warren Slesinger, and Kathleen Whitten. Each has won a Poetry Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission during the period 1977-2004.The book's introduction is...