Kwame Dawes
@kwamedawes
Poet, novelist, editor, playwright, professor--Noah of all things
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http://www.kwamedawes.com 06-11-2011 08:27:13
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Signature Calabash moment. If you know, you know. Maximum respect Kwame Dawes #calabash2025 📸: Gareth Cobran
“Perhaps this will become my symbol—two chairs, domestic in their placement side by side, so two sisters may see each other’s eyes, but able, still, to stretch their un-stockinged legs far out over the well-kept rug—” —Kwame Dawes (Kwame Dawes), “The Exile Remembers His Sisters”
the Calabash Literary Festival is a gem. There are more important and higher profile literary festivals in the world, but few in a more luscious location. Skip the liquor; the vibe alone was intoxicating. Huge congrats to Justine Henzell and Kwame Dawes. What an achievement!
It’s a good one! My partner in crime, comrade in arms, co-parent of Calabash Kwame Dawes #Calabash2025
With $2 million Mellon grant, Brown scholars will unearth a treasure trove of African poetry | Brown University brown.edu/news/2025-05-2… via Brown University Congrats to APBF's Kwame Dawes & Lorna Dawes on this achievement! 🎉 📚 🖥️ 📼🌍🎉
...poetry has existed in Africa as long as it’s existed anywhere else, and to say otherwise is erasure. To archive it, to organize it, to pay attention to it is to enact something profoundly humane. It’s a resistance to erasure--Kwame Dawes
Congratulations to Kwame Dawes and Lorna Dawes. With $2 million Mellon grant, Brown scholars will unearth a treasure trove of African poetry | Brown University brown.edu/news/2025-05-2…
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Woohoo!! Look at our Calabash family Ingrid Persaud 🇹🇹🇧🇧🇬🇧 and Jason Allen Paisant a go on wid tings! Love this for Royal Society of Literature and for them. 👏👏
Well we do concur …simply…the greatest likkle festival in the greatest likkle village in the greatest likkle country 🇯🇲 in the world!! Thank you National Geographic and all that made this possible Jakes Hotel Visit Jamaica Beverley East
On this day a dear friend was born and unknown to me my future world became better in that instant Kwame Dawes #gift