Award-winning poet, author, and Editor Kwame Dawes, Ph.D., joined American Life in Poetry as its new editor in partnership with the Poetry Foundation and the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Dawes is the author of twenty-two books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. His awards include an Emmy, National Press Club Joan … Continued

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