Visiting Writers Series Reading with Emmy-Winning Jamaican Poet & Writer Kwame Dawes

Tue Nov 19 2024 at 07:30 pm UTC-05:00

Shelton Auditorium | Indianapolis

The Butler University MFA Program in Creative Writing
Publisher/HostThe Butler University MFA Program in Creative Writing
Visiting Writers Series Reading with Emmy-Winning Jamaican Poet & Writer Kwame Dawes
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Join Butler MFA for a Visiting Writers Series reading with Emmy -Winning Jamaican Poet & Writer and Windham-Campbell Award Winner Kwame Dawes!
Kwame Dawes is the author of numerous books of poetry and other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His most recent collection is "Sturge Town" (Peepal Tree Press, UK 2023).
Dawes is a George W. Holmes University Professor of English and Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner. He teaches in the Pacific MFA Program and is the Series Editor of the African Poetry Book Series, Director of the African Poetry Book Fund, and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.
He is a Chancellor for the Academy of American Poets and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Kwame Dawes is the winner of the prestigious Windham/Campbell Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the 2022 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.
All VWS events are non-ticketed and free to the public.
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Shelton Auditorium, Christian Theological Seminary, 1000 W 42nd St, Indianapolis, IN 46208-3301, United States,Indianapolis, Indiana

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