Kwame Dawes
@kwamedawes
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Poet, novelist, editor, playwright, professor--Noah of all things
USA
Joined November 2011
RT @THTCthemovie: Well yes! Thank U @IndieWire The Harder They Come in the top 100.films of the decade of the 70s🇯🇲🇯🇲 .
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RT @AfricanPoetryBF: Read @ChinuaEzenwa's thoughtful conversation with Connor Cogill on his chapbook Light Through Water, now featured on o….
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RT @AfricanPoetryBF: APBF founder Professor Kwame Dawes and Professor Chris Abani discuss building an archive of African poetry on Tuesday,….
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RT @calabashfest: Calabash co-founder Colin Channer is among this stellar gathering of US Poets Laureate and we have no doubt his contribut….
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RT @calabashfest: “Calabash. is more than an event - it’s a movement” Jamaica’s Calabash Literary Festival Named One of the World’s Best by….
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The Calabash International Literary Festival in Treasure Beach, Jamaica, has earned global recognition as one of the world’s seven best book festivals, according to National Geographic.
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RT @JustineHenzell: On this day a dear friend was born and unknown to me my future world became better in that instant @kwamedawes #gift.
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RT @JustineHenzell: Well we do concur …simply…the greatest likkle festival in the greatest likkle village in the greatest likkle country 🇯🇲….
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RT @THTCthemovie: Natey Jones will be IVAN at Stratford East in London in Sept. respect due to Jimmy Cliff for giving us all such a legacy….
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RT @calabashfest: Woohoo!! Look at our Calabash family @IngridPersaud and Jason Allen Paisant a go on wid tings! Love this for @RSLiteratur….
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RT @JustineHenzell: Awww that’s so cool! And true! Check it @oblessa @SonjahStanley 🇯🇲🇯🇲 #reggae.
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RT @JakesHotel: View of Jakes from the Caribbean Sea. 📍: Treasure Beach, Jamaica. Book your stay at https://t.co/….
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RT @aLongHouse: “. I can understand.Borgesʼs blind love for Buenos Aires,.how a man feels the streets of a city swell in his hand.”.—Dere….
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RT @CaribTranslate: Congratulations to @kwamedawes and Lorna Dawes. With $2 million Mellon grant, Brown scholars will unearth a treasure t….
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With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet biographies, scholarship, news coverage and more.
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RT @oluwafumike: I'm in Poets & Writers. The Literary Life section. My essay, "In the Shadow of a Homeplace" is in the July/August 2025 is….
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