Kwame Dawes: The Busiest Man in Literature

Kwame Dawes stands at his desk with books and past publications of Prairie Schooner behind him

Kwame Dawes: The Busiest Man in Literature

Published: Wednesday, March 11, 2020

He calls Ghana, Jamaica and Nebraska home. He writes plays, novels and poetry. And he believes literature helps students become empathetic citizens of the world. Kwame Dawes is the Glenna Luschei Editor-in-Chief of the Prairie Schooner literary journal at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. In this episode of Faculty 101, find out what brought him to Nebraska and how the music of Bob Marley changed his life.

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