Brown professor Kwame Dawes to serve as poet laureate of Jamaica
Dawes, who was born in Ghana, said he plans to work in schools to help revive an interest in reading and teaching poetry.
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Brown University Professor of Literary Arts Kwame Dawes named poet laureate of Jamaica
Dawes, who has written dozens of books of poetry, fiction, essays and criticism, looks to celebrate Jamaican writing, oral ...
Professor Kwame Dawes is Jamaica’s fourth poet laureate
Widely acclaimed poet Professor Kwame Dawes has been appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica for 2025 to 2028. In the ceremony of ...
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Poetry at its best
It feels like everything is coming together in a way that’s pushing me to new heights,” Jackson told the Jamaica Observer ... Prior to poetry, she recorded a handful of songs as deejay ...
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Jamaican poet Velma Pollard, whose melodious writing paid homage to the Patwa language, passes on
"Pollard’s readings [demonstrate] the diversity of her work [...] At its most characteristic, her writing assumes a ...
25 Canadian books to read during Black History Month 2025 and beyond
February is Black History Month in Canada. Check out this list of buzzworthy works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Black ...
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Award-winning authors Claudia Rankine, Bernadine Evaristo reflect on literary arts at Brown event
On Tuesday evening, award-winning writers Bernadine Evaristo and Claudia Rankine read excerpts of their work and reflected on ...
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Facing climate crisis, ‘Dark Laboratory’ offers possibility and poetry
Tao Leigh Goffe says there are examples of how Black and Indigenous people bear the brunt of exploitation and environmental racism.
Steven Knight & Cast Of ‘A Thousand Blows’ Talk Combining Bare-Knuckle Boxing With Female Gangs In Disney+’s Victorian Drama Series
Kirby, whose star was soaring following a BAFTA-winning performance in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe, said he wanted to fulfil a ...
All the King’s Censors
Support for this article was provided by the British Library’s Eccles Institute for the Americas & Oceania Phil Davies ...
Call the Midwife season 14 episode 5 cast as Grange Hill and Heartstopper stars join series
Call the Midwife is back on BBC One with the fifth episode of season 14 and Sister Julienne (played by Jenny Agutter) faces a ...