Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems

Kwame Dawes (born in Accra, Ghana) is a poet, editor, and literary entrepreneur who grew up in Jamaica. He is the Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and a Chancellor's Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His many collections include Wisteria: Twilight Poems from the Swamp Country (2006) and Prophets (2013), and the Grammy-nominated album Country: The New Definition. He is the author of Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius (2002). He founded the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and the Musgrave Gold Medal from the Institute of Jamaica.