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Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes is the Ghana-born, award-winning author of twenty-two books of poetry—including Sturge Town from Norton—and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. He has won Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Emmy, and was the 2019 awardee of the Windham-Campbell Prize in Poetry. He is series editor of the African Poetry Book Series—the latest of which is Kumi: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set. He currently teaches at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
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Eight New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set
This nine-piece box set, an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project, features the work of eight African poets.
Go de Rass to Sleep
A Jamaican patois translation of the New York Times, Amazon.com, and Wall Street Journal number one best seller and worldwide phenomenon.
Gomer’s Song
Award-winning poet Kwame Dawes explores the insidious nature of power and the limits of protest for Chris Abani’s Black Goat poetry series.
Kumi Na Moja: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set
Forthcoming: 12/2/25
This 11 piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of ten new African poets.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before December 2, 2025.
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Kumi: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set
This 10-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of nine new African poets.
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New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nane)
This fourteen-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of thirteen new African poets.
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Nne)
This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of ten new African poets.
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba)
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of eleven new African poets.
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Sita)
This eleven-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of ten new African poets.
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tano)
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of eleven new African poets.
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Tatu)
This limited-edition nine-piece box set, an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project, features the work of new African poets.
So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival
Robert Pinsky and Derek Walcott anchor this groundbreaking, soulful poetry collection.
Tisa: New-Generation African Poets, A Chapbook Box Set
This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set—an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project—features the work of eleven new African poets.
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Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry
Forthcoming: 8/5/25
Celebrating ten years of New-Generation African Poets, Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry presents Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani’s unprecedented disquisition on the state of African poetry.
Now available for preorder. All preorders will ship on or before August 5, 2025.
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eel on reef
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