Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays, including Duppy Conqueror; Wheels; Back of Mount Peace; Hope's Hospice; Wisteria, finalist for the Patterson Memorial Prize; Impossible Flying; Gomer's Song; Progeny of Air, winner of the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection in the UK, as well as the collections Resisting the Anomie; Prophets; Jacko Jacobus; Requiem; and others. His book Speak from Here to There, a co-written collection of verse with Australian poet John Kinsella, appeared in 2016. His most recent collection is City of Bones: A Testament. Dawes is the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner, teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program, Director of the African Poetry Book Fund, and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.

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