Bibliography- KWAME DAWES Dec. 2015

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KWAME DAWES
Bibliography
Works by Dawes

Poetry Collections

- Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems. Copper Canyon Press. 2013.
- Wheels. Peepal Tree Press (UK). 2011.
- Back of Mt Peace. Peepal Tree Press (UK). 2009.
- Hope’s Hospice. Peepal Tree Press (UK). 2009.
- Grace: Poems Honoring Columbia and Richland County’s African-American Leaders.
Historic Columbia Foundation. 2008.
- Gomer’s Song. Akashic Books. 2007.
- Impossible Flying. Peepal Tree Press (UK). 2007.
- Brimming. Stepping Stones Press. 2006.
- Wisteria: Twilights Songs from the Swamp Country. Red Hen Press. 2005.
- I Saw Your Face, with Tom Feelings. Dial Books. 2005.
- Bruised Totems. Parallel Press Madison. 2004.
- New and Selected Poems 1994-2002. Peepal Tree Press (UK). 2003.
- Midland: Poems. Ohio University Press Goose Lane Editions (Canada). 2001.
- Mapmaker: Poems. Smith Doorstop Books (UK). 2000.
- Shook Foil. Peepal Tree Press (UK). 1997.
- Requiem. Peepal Tree Press (UK). 1996.
- Jacko Jacobus. Peepal Tree Press (UK). 1996.
- Prophets. Peepal Tree Press (UK). 1995.
- Resisting the Anomie. Fredericton. 1995.
- Progeny of Air. Peepal Tree. 1994.

Fiction

- Bivouac. Peepal Tree Press (UK). 2005, 2010.
- She’s Gone. Akashic Books. 2007.
- A Place to Hide and Other Stories. Peepal Tree. 2003.

Nonfiction

- A Far Cry from Plymouth Rock. Peepal Tree Press (UK). 2007.
- Bob Marley: Lyrical Genius. Bob Cat Books. US Edition 2007. Sanctuary Group, UK
Edition 2002. German Translation, 2007.
- Natural Mysticism: Towards a Reggae Aesthetic. Peepal Tree Press. 1999.
- “Violence and the Position of Race, Religion, and Gender in Jamaican Fiction and
Drama.” Dissertation Abstracts International 53.12. 1993.

Plays

- One Love. Methuen Books (UK). 2001.

Professional Editing
- Shiferraw, Mahtem. Fuchsia. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Spring 2016.*
- New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Boxset – Tatu. Co-edited with Christopher
Abani. New York: Akashic Books/African Poetry Book Fund, Spring 2016.*
- A Bloom of Stones: A Multilingual Anthology of Haitian Poetry Written After the Quake.
Peepal Tree Press, 2015.
- Eight New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Boxset. Co-edited with Christopher
Abani. New York: Akashic Books/African Poetry Book Fund, 2015.
- Awoonor, Kofi. The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Print.
- Gachagua, Clifton. Madman at Kilifi. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Print.
- Seven New Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Boxset. Co-edited with Christopher
Abani. New York, Slapering Hol Press, March 2014.
- Hold Me to an Island: Caribbean Place: An Anthology of Writing. Caribbean Modern
Classics. Co-editor with Jeremy Poynting. Peepal Tree Press, April 2014.
- Visions and Voices: Conversations with Fourteen Caribbean Playwrights. Peepal Tree
Press, April 2013.
- Seeking: Poetry and Prose Inspired by the Art of Jonathan Green. Co-editor with Marjory
Wentworth. USC Press, 2013.
- The Prairie Schooner Book Prize: Tenth Anniversary Reader. Co-edited with James
Engelhardt and Marianne Kunkel. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. Print.
- Seven Strong: Winners of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize 2006-2012. University of
South Carolina Press, 2012.
- Jubilation: An Anthology of Poetry Celebrating Fifty Years of Jamaican Independence.
Peepal Tree Press, April 2012.
- Lim, Ann-Marie. The Festival of Wild Orchid. Peepal Tree Press, April 2012. Print.
- Nalley, Kathleen. Nesting Doll. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation with The
South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2012. (Chapbook)
- Robinson, Dawnn. In the Cross Winds. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation
with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2012. (Chapbook)
- Robinson, Roger. The Butterfly Hotel. Peepal Tree Press, 2012. Print.
- Waldron, Nicola. Girl at the Watershed. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation
with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2012. (Chapbook)
- Wright, William. Sleep Paralysis. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation with
The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2012. (Chapbook)
- Home Is Where: An Anthology of African American Poetry from the Carolinas. Hub City
Press, October 2011.
- Collins Klobah, Loretta. The Twelve Foot Neon Woman. Peepal Tree Press, 2011. Print.
(Shortlisted for the Bocas Prize in Trinidad)
- McCallum, Shara. The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems. Peepal Tree Press,
2011. Print.
- Evans, Worthy. Green Revolver. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press in
Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2010.
- Kerr, Lisa. Read Between the Sheets. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation
with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2010. (Chapbook)
- Mullikin, Erin J. After Milk & Song. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation with
The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2010. (Chapbook)
- Pursley III, John. A Story Without Poverty. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in
Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2010. (Chapbook)
- So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash Literary
Festival. Co-edited with Colin Channer. Akashic Books, 2010.
- The Chemistry of Color: Poems Responding to Art. The South Carolina Poetry Initiative
and Stepping Stones Press, 2010.
- Warren, Amanda Rachelle. Ritual No. 3: For the Exorcism of Ghosts. Columbia: Stepping
Stones Press in Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2010. (Chapbook)
- Blaskowitz Prichard, Brittney. Lessons in Disaster. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in
Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2009. (Chapbook)
- Dameron, DéLana R.A. How God Ends Us. Columbia: The University of South Carolina
Press in Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2009.
- Dawes, Neville. Fugue and Other Writings. Peepal Tree Press, 2009, 2012.
- Finch Stevens, Susan. Lettered Bones. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation
with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2009. (Chapbook)
- Mace Harvid, Ashley. Dirt Eaters. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation with
The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2009. (Chapbook)
- Red: Contemporary Black British Poetry. Peepal Tree Press, October 2009.
- Soni, Anne. The Body that Shadows this Space. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in
Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2009. (Chapbook)
- Young, Ivan. A Shape in the Waves. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation
with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2009. (Chapbook)
- Gómez, Vera. Barrio Voices. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation with The
South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2008. (Chapbook)
- Harkins, Tim. Chasing the Ineffable. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation
with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2008. (Chapbook)
- Hutchins Harris, Mary. A Tongue Full of Yeses. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in
Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2008. (Chapbook)
- Johnson, Melissa C. Looking Twice at the World. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in
Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2008. (Chapbook)
- Madden, Ed. Signals. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press in Cooperation
with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2008.
- McManus, Ray. Left Behind. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation with The
South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2008. (Chapbook)
- Tombe, Sheila Joan. Sometimes I am Clay. Columbia: The South Carolina Poetry
Initiative, 2008. (Chapbook)
- Kelly, Angela. Post Script from the House of Dreams. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press
in Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2007. (Chapbook)
- Peluso, Karen M. The Mother-Face in the Mirror. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in
Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2007. (Chapbook)
- Watson, Joshua. Disappearing Tattoos. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation
with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2007. (Chapbook)
- Williams, Katherine. Cranioglyph: A Memoir in Verse. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press
in Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2006. (Chapbook)
- Davidson, Phebe. Song Dog. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation with The
South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2006. (Chapbook)
- Madden, Ed. Signals. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation with The South
Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2006. (Chapbook)
- Slusher, Brian. Waking in the driver’s seat. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in
Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2006. (Chapbook)
- Smith, Mike. Small Industry. Columbia: Stepping Stones Press in Cooperation with The
South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2006. (Chapbook)
- Meyers, Susan. Keep and Give Away. Columbia: The University of South Carolina Press
in Cooperation with The South Carolina Poetry Initiative, 2006.

Uncollected Poetry

- “Hitter” and “Adultery.” Plume. (forthcoming).
- “Preparing to Cross Over,” “The Human Condition,” “The Old Woman on the
Road.” Bengal Lights (forthcoming).
- “Stillness,” “Mist.” Washington Square Review (forthcoming).
- “Rain” Raleigh Review (Fall 2015). Print
- “Trumpet,” “Celebrity.” Harpur Palate 14.2 (Winter/Spring 2015). Print.
- “In This Saying” and “Making a Deal.” The Kenyon Review. (January/February 2015).
Web.
- “Before You.” Narrative Northeast. (January 5, 2015). Web.
- “Purgatory.” The Missing Slate 12 (Summer 2014). Web.
- “Outside the Courthouse.” The Missing Slate (June 10, 2014). Web.
- “Two Plants.” Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire 14.1 (Spring/Summer 2014): 17.
Print.
- “Détente” and “Seventeen.” Tupelo Quarterly 3 (April 2014). Web.
- “An Unfinished Life,” “Border,” “Blossom.” The Normal School. Spring 2014.
- “Coffin Riders,” “Believe Me: An Insider’s Tip,” “A Poem for Shaun White,”
“The Gay Olympian’s Dilemma.” Poems for the Sochi Olympics. The Wall Street Journal.
2014.
- “Portmore,” “Making Ends Meet,” “A Vanity,” “Cleaning,” “African Postman.” UniVerse: A
United Nations of Poetry. 2014. Web.
- “Hair,” “Marriage & Verse,” “Forgetting,” “Guyana 1966.” Moko Magazine. March 2014.
- “Journey Man.” TriQuarterly. Winter 2013/Spring 2014.
- “On Beauty,” “Plot,” “Making Love in a Boarding House.” Paterson Literary Review.
2013-2014.
- “The Way of the World.” Jasper. November/December 2013.
- “Iron,” “Flack,” “If You Know Her,” “The Old Woman,” “Old Man Under Pecan
Tree.” Black Renaissance Noire. Fall 2013.
- “Mama Ola Speaks.” The Southeast Review. Fall 2013.
- “Street Scene” and “Waiting for the Truck.” The Pinch. Fall 2013. Note: ”Waiting for the
Truck” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
- “Tuck,” “To Buy a Pair of Shoes.” Harvard Divinity Bulletin. Summer/Autumn 2013.
- “A Good Woman Blues.” Narrative. Summer 2013.
- “Rope.” Rattle 40 (Summer 2013). Print and Web.
- “A Year,” “Animals,” “Spent Shell,” “Tree Husbandry,” “Gravedigger.” Passages North
35. 2013.
- “Black Suits” and “News from Harlem.” Hayden’s Ferry Review. Spring/Summer 2013.
- “Parenting” and “Marriage.” The Chattahoochee Review. Spring 2013.
- “The Transaction,” “The Burden,” “Pennies,” “Exile: Reading the Sky,” “Iron,” “Flack,” “If
You Know Her,” “The Old Woman,” “Old Man Under Pecan Tree.” Black Renaissance
Noire 13.1 (Spring/Summer 2013): 106-115. Print.
- “Prelude,” “Scent,” “The Separation/Retention.” Hunger Mountain. 2013. Note: ”The
Separation/Retention” won a Pushcart Prize.
- “Stop Time.” The Missouri Review (December 2012). Web.
- “Just Play the Damned Piece.” 32 Poems 10.2 (Fall 2012). Web.
- “What God Says” and “Creek.” Plume 13 (July 2012). Web.
- “Fire,” “Death,” “Land,” “To Tame the Savage Beast,” “Mama,” “Exorcism,” “In
Residence.” The American Poetry Review 41.1. January/February 2012. 23-25, 28.
- “Avoiding the Spirits.” Narrative (2012). Web.
- “Equations.” The Baffler 21 (2012): 90-91. Print.
- “Spring” and “The Things You Forgot In Jail.” 2 Bridges Review 1.1. Fall 2011. 25-26.
- “Storm,” “Tomb,” “JOD,” “Boy in Blue.” Virginia Quarterly Review 87.2 (Spring 2011):
62-65. Print.
- “Allergic,” “Post Colonial,” “Dancing After,” “Flat Land,” “Hotel,” “The Surrealist Poet,”
“Shadow,” “Spring Time,” “The Secrets,” “Rituals,” “Stink,” “Dream,” “Homeland
Security.” World Poetry Portfolio #30: Kwame Dawes. Molossus (June 2011). Web.
- “Light like a Feather, Heavy as Lead.” Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas –
Special Issue: Bob Marley 43.2 (October 21, 2010): 166-167. Web.
- “Marked,” “Ezekiel, Chapter Twenty-five,” “Faith,” “Elegy for Herouy.” Small Axe.
February 27, 2011. Web.
- “Deep Empathy,” “Prelude,” “Badge,” “Breath,” “Getting High,” “Dumb,” “Heroes,”
“Miracle,” “Mother and Child,” “In the Hospital,” “Fly,” “White Pigeon,” “Bearing
Witness.” Virginia Quarterly Review 86.3. Summer 2010. 134-157.
- “Redux” and “How to Pick a Hanging Tree.” BIM 3.1. Nov. 2009 – Feb. 2010. 13, 56.
- “Rituals Before the Poem” and “Among the Dithering Feathers.” Valparaiso Poetry
Review 11.1. Fall/Winter 2009-2010.
- “Esther’s Nightmares,” BIM 2.2. 2009. 49-51.
- “New Day”, State Newspaper (SC): Living. 9 January 2009.
- “The Way of Love” and “CITY.” Redivider 6.2. Emerson College. Spring 2009.
- “YAP” and “Chameleon of Suffering.” Poetry International 17. 126, 537. 2009.
- “The Things She Knows.” Ninth Letter 5.2. Fall/Winter 2008-2009. 141.
- “Genocide” and “Gone Fishing.” Ecotone 4.1 and 4.2. Winter 2008.
- “Stono.” Moving Worlds. 7.2. 2007. “Freedom and Culture. The Bicentenary of the
Parliamentary Abolition of the Slave Trade.” (34).
- “Memoir.” World Literature Today. July-August 2006. Prairie Schooner� 10/1/14 11:25 AM
- “Spread the Word: creating opportunities for London’s writers. Fast Forward. 2006. Comment [1]: Did this also appear in Moving
- “Please Can I Be Jamaican?” Granta 92. Winter 2005. 61-75. Worlds, same issue?
- “The Habits of Love” and “The Things She Knows.” The Arts Journal 2.1. September
2005. 80, 18.
- “Peach Picking.” The Georgia Review 59.1. Spring 2005. 49.
- “The Letter,” “Sparrow,” “Ritual,” “Shades.” The Hampton-Sydney Poetry Review,
Virginia. Winter, 2004. 7-9.
- “Fat Man, Little Boy.” Indiana Review, 26.1. 70-71. Summer 2004.
- “Henna.” Beloit Poetry Journal. 54.4. Summer 2004.
- “Meeting.” Essence Magazine. May 2004.
- “Pink Snapper.” Moving Worlds: a Journal of Transcultural Writings. UK. April 2004.
- “Lesson,” “The Idea of Her,” “Time,” “Island Memory.” Bomb: The Americas Issue 86.
March 15, 2004.
- “Seasonal,” “Nightmare IV.” Illuminations. August 2003. 40-41.
- “Hate,” “Anchor,” “Rats.” Six Seasons Review. 1.2. 2001.
- “Sanctuary,” “Genocide,” “Reaper in a Wheat Field.” Wasafiri 32. Autumn 2000. 23-24.
- “Caricature,” “Ska Memory,” and “Memory: An Abstraction.” Spoon River Poetry Review
25.2. Summer/Fall 2000.
- “Holy Dub” (A birthday tribute to Kamua Brathwaite). The Caribbean Writer 14. 2000.
95-96.
- “Cortege on Leyton High Street,” “Eating With Fingers”, “Dionysius’ Miracle in Oxford
Circus,” “Umpire at the Portrait Gallery.” Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing,
21.2. 1999. 1-4.
- “Inheritance: A Fragment.” London Review of Books. February 1999.
- “Death Mask.” Black Renaissance. Fall 1998.
- “Five Poems.” Obsidian II. Fall 1998.
- “In Memoriam.” Ariel 29.2. April 1998. 73-74.
- “Love Oil.” Callaloo: Emerging Male Writers. A Special Issue, Part II 21.2. Spring 1998.
325-326.
- “Midlands” and “Ska Memory.” Yamassee Review. Winter 1998.
- "Three Poems.” Point. October 1997.
- "Excerpts from Twilight Songs from the Swamp Country.” Doubletake. Summer 1997.
- “Boat People.” West Coast Line 22. Spring/Summer 1997.
- “Heavy as Lead.” Atlanta Review. 3.2. Spring/Summer 1997. 78.
- "Hawk” and “Tornado Child.” Poetry London Newsletter. Spring 1997.
- “Baptism,” “Marriage”, “Parting”, “Guidance”, “Bloodletting,” “Trouble-maker.” West
Coast: Line 22.31/1. 1997. 7-11.
- “Bridge.” Ariel 27.2. April 1996. 47.
- "Two Premonitions,” “Bridge,” and “Lonely Londoners.” Ariel 27.2. April 1996.
- “A-sea,” “Prayer,” “Return,” “Traveller,” “Low Country.” Obsidian II 10.1 and 10.2.
Spring-Summer, Fall-Winter, 1995. 239-243.
- "Psalm 36.” London Review of Books 17.10. May 1995. Web
- "Pusher." London Review of Books 17.10. May 1995. Web.
- “Cruise.” Mississippi Review: Caribbean Writers 24.3. 171. 1995.
- “Progeny of Air,” “New Neighbors.” The Forward Book of Poetry. 1995.
- “Cutting Your Nose to Spite Your Face.” Fuse Magazine 27.3. Spring, 1994.
- "Grace." Callaloo. Summer 1993.
- "Progeny of Air," “Grace.” Callaloo 16.3. Summer 1993. 585-589.
- “Acceptance Revisited." Fiddlehead. Fall 1989.
- “Evening Song." Fiddlehead. Spring 1988.
- "A Short Play." English in the Caribbean. Ed. Faith Linton. London: Collins, 1987.
- “At the Fair.” Shenandoah. n.d.

Uncollected Fiction

- “The Hawk.” Moving Worlds: A Journal of Transcultural Writings. UK. April 2004.

Anthologized Poetry

- “Thief,” “Reburial.” Grit Po: Rough South Poetry Anthology. (forthcoming).
- “New Day.” 44 on 44. Ed. Lita Hooper. Third World Press, 2011. 111-115. Print.
- “Secret,” “Long Time,” “The Wounds I Have Made.” Making the Trees Shiver: An
Anthology of the First Six Years of the Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival. NY
Writers Coalition Press, 2011. Print.
- “Fat Man,” Being Human: the Companion Anthology to Staying Alive and Being
Alive. Bloodaxe Books, 2011.
- “Blouse and Skirt.” Spaces Between Us: Poetry, Prose, and Art of HIV AIDS. Third World
Press, 2010. Print.
- “Train Ride.” The 100 Best African American Poems. Sourcebook MediaFusion, 2010.
- “Libation.” A Garden of Forking Paths: An Anthology for Creative Writers. Eds. Beth
Anstandig and Eric Killough. Prentice Hall. 2007. 302-303.
- “Sketch,” “The Glory Has Left the Temple,” “Brother Love.” The Southern Poetry
Anthology. Eds. Stephen Gardner and William Wright. Texas Review Press. 2007. 59-62.
- “The Magic of Monarchy.” NW15: The Anthology of New Writing 15. Eds. Bernardine
Evaristo, et. al. Granta, UK. 28 September, 2007.
- “Eat.” Dance the Guns to Silence: 100 Poems for Ken Saro Wiwa. Ed. Nii Ayikwei Parkes
and Kadija Sesay. London: Flipped Eye Publishing, 2006.
- “Inheritance.” The PushCart Book of Poetry: The best poems from thirty years of The
Pushcart Prize. Pushcart Press. 2006. 536.
- “Legend.” The Forward Book of Poetry. Faber and Faber. 2006.
- “Marley’s Ghost.” Iron Balloons: New Fiction from Jamaica. Ed. Colin Channer. Akashic
Books. 2006.
- “Marley’s Ghost.” Iron Balloons: Hit Fiction from Jamaica’s Calabash Writer’s Workshop.
Ed. Colin Channer. Akashic Books. 2006. 219-276.
- “Easter Sunday,” “Love Oil,” “Hinterland.” A Millennial Sampler of South Carolina Poetry.
Ninety-Six Press. 2005. 63-66.
- “Shook Foil,” “Sunday Morning,” “Liminal.” The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse. Eds.
Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 329-332.
- “Carolina Barbecue.” Cave Canem Anthology. 2003. No. 8. 17.
- “Inheritance.” The Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses. Ed. Bill Henderson
with the Pushcart Prize editors. Pushcart Press, 2002. 523.
- “Excursion to Port Royal.” Step Into a World: A Global Anthology of the New Black
Literature. Ed. Kevin Powell. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2000.
- "Communion.” Forward Anthology 1995. UK. 1996.
- "Shadow Play,” “Oakland Avenue,” “Some Tentative Definitions XI.” Poems for the
Beekeeper: An Anthology of Modern Poetry. Ed. Robert Gent. Five Leaves. UK, 1996.
- "Progeny of Air" and "New Neighbors." Forward Anthology. UK. 1994.

Anthologized Fiction

- “Portmore” and “My Lord.” Kingston Noir. Ed. Colin Channer. New York: Akashic Books,
2012. Print.
- “Deecy and Pheo.” Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction. Ed. Carol Taylor.
Plume Books. 2001. 155-167.
- “The Story of the Girl and the Fish.” Sitting up with the Dead. Ed. Pamela Petro.
Flamingo/Harper Collins. 2000. 134-141.

Anthologized Nonfiction

- “Kwame Dawes: A Jamaican Father.” Memories of Carolinian Immigrants. University
Press of America. 2009.

Scholarly Publications in Newspapers, Journals, and Magazines

- “The Guardy and the Shame.” Virginia Quarterly Review 91.1 (Winter 2015). Print.
- Foreword. Madman at Kilifi. By Clifton Gachagua. Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 2014. Print.
- Foreword. The Promise of Hope: New and Selected Poems, 1964-2013. By Kofi Awoonor.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. Print.
- Introduction. Inner Yardie: Three Plays. By Patricia Cumper. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press,
2014. Print.
- “The Church and HIV/AIDS in Jamaica.” Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. (April 3,
2014) Web.
- “The Democracy of Bones.” Prairie Schooner Fusion #8: Bones. February 2014. Web.
- “Naming Trees.” Prairie Schooner Fusion #7: Trees. November 2013. Web.
- Introduction. Prairie Schooner Fusion #6: Water. August 2013. Web.
- “An Apologia for Caribbean Publishing.” Caribbean Quarterly 59.1 (March 2013): 84-91.
Historical Abstracts. Web.
- “Take It, Eat.” Prairie Schooner Fusion #4: Feast. February 2013. Web.
- Foreword. Rice: Poems. By Nikky Finney. Evanston, IL: TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern
University Press, 2013. Print.
- “Home is Where.” Prairie Schooner Fusion #3: Home. November 2012. Web.
- Introduction. Seven Strong: Winners of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize 2006-
2012. University of South Carolina Press, 2012. Print.
- Introduction. First Poems. By George Campbell. UK: Peepal Tree Books, 2012. Print.
- Introduction. The Children of Sisyphus. By Orlando Patterson. UK: Peepal Tree Press,
2012. Print.
- Introduction. The Wild Coast. By Jan Carew. Peepal Tree Press, 2012. Print.
- Introduction. A Book of Exquisite Disasters. By Charlene Spearen. University of South
Carolina Press, 2012. Print.
- “Meeting at the Crossroads: Mapping Worlds and World Literature.” The Comparatist 36
(May 2012): 292-299. The University of North Carolina Press. Print.
- “Calabash: Orlando Patterson.” The Huffington Post, UK: The Blog. February 8, 2012.
Web. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kwame-dawes/calabash-orlando-
patterso_b_1565505.html
- Introduction. Prairie Schooner Fusion #1: Work. February 2012. Web.
- Introductory Essay. Fugue and Other Writings. By Neville Dawes. UK: Peepal Tree Press,
2011.
- “City of Dust, City of Stones.” Virginia Quarterly Review 87.2 (Spring 2011): 62-65.
Print.
- “Bearing Witness: The Poet as Journalist.” Nieman Reports, Harvard University, Vol. 64
No. 3. Fall 2010 (21-23).
- “Deep Empathy.” Virginia Quarterly Review 86.3 (Summer 2010): 134-135. Print.
- Introduction. The Last Enchantment. By Neville Dawes. Peepal Tree Press, 2009. Print.
- “Secrets, Taboos and Private Lives in Jamaica.” Global Health Magazine (January 2009).
Print and Web.
- “Carifesta – Making a Good Idea Work.” Bim 2.2 (May- Nov. 2009): 16-27.
- “Poster Girl Who was Cut Out of the Picture.” Washington Post (June 8, 2008): Page
B03. Print. (Also ran in the online edition of the Miami Herald)
- “Dispatch: Learning to Speak: The New Age of HIV/AIDS in the Other Jamaica.” Text by
Kwame Dawes and photos by Joshua Cogan. Virginia Quarterly Review 84.2 (Spring
2008): 100-123. Print.
- “Learning to Speak: The New Age of HIV/AIDS and the New Jamaica.” Virginia
Quarterly Review 84.2. Spring 2008. 100-123.
- “Poetry Terrors.” The Poetry Foundation. March 20, 2007. Web.
- Introduction. Eel on Reef. By Uche Nduka. New York: Akashic Books, 2007. Print.
- “Writing Away From Home.” Writing Life: Reflections by West Indian Writers. Edited by
Mervyn Morris & Carolyn Allen. Ian Randle Publishers, 2007. 51-58. Print.
- “Passport Control.” Granta 92 (Winter 2006): 61-75. Print.
- “Forging a Distinctive Sensibility: Babylon By Bus.” Music, Writing, and Cultural Unity in
the Caribbean. Ed. Timothy Reiss. Africa World Press, 2006.
- “A Far Cry from Plymouth Rock.” World Literature Today (July/Aug. 2006): 30-34. Print.
- “Black British Poetry: Some Considerations.” Write Black, Write British: From Post
Colonial to Black British Literature. Hansib, 2005. Print.
- “Forging a Distinctive Sensibility: Babylon by Bus.” Music, Writing, and Cultural Unity in
the Caribbean. Ed. Timothy Reiss. African World Press, 2005. Print.
- Introduction. Twenty: South Carolina Poetry Fellows. Hub City Press, January 2005.
Print.
- “Creativity Frees What is Penned Up.” Published on 2004-12-05, Page E4, The State.
(Columbia, SC).
- Interview with Ibo Cooper. Bomb Magazine 85 (Winter 2003). Web.
- Interview with Judy Mowatt. Bomb Magazine 85 (Winter 2003). Web.
- Introduction. Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems. By Amiri Baraka. House of
Nehesi, Philipsburg, St. Martin, Caribbean, 2003. Print.
- “Beyond Food to Rich Story of Relationships.” Published on 2003-12-14, Page E2, The
State. (Columbia, SC).
- “Black British Poetry, Some Considerations.” Wasafiri 38 (Spring 2003): 44. Print.
- “The Other Tribe.” Essence 33.5 (Sept. 2002): 128. Print.
- “Latin American Short Fiction” (Chapter). Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second
Revised Edition. Ed. Charles May. Salem Press, 2001. 2936-2948. Print.
- “Okigbo: A Divided Sensibility” (Chapter). Studies on Christopher Okigbo. Ed. Uzo
Esonwanne. G.K.Hall, 2001. Print.
- “Introduction: Catch Afire—New Jamaican Writing.” Obsidian III - Literature in the
African Diaspora 2.2 (Fall 2000-Winter 2001): 10. Web.
- “Negotiating the Ships on Their Heads: Black British Fiction.” Wasafiri 29 (1999): 18-24.
Print.
- “Disarming the Threat of Rasta Revolution in Mais’ Brother Man.” Commonwealth Novel
in English 7-8 (1997-1998): 81-109. Print.
- “Children’s Writing of James Berry” (Chapter). Borrowed Power Essays on Cultural
Appropriation. Ed.Bruce Ziff. Rutgers, 1997. 109-121. Print.
- Introduction. Sudeep Sen’s Postmarked India: New and Selected Poems. Harper Collins,
1997. Print.
- “360 Degrees Black: A Conversation with Lillian Allen.” West Coast Line 22.33 (1997):
78-91.
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Interviews

- “2015 Innovations in Reading Prize Interview.” National Book Foundation. August 3,
2015. Web.
- Robie, Allina. “’Every Part of Who I Am’: An Interview with Kwame Dawes.” University of
Central Missouri: Pleiades, a Journal of New Writing. April 4, 2015. Web.
- Sloan, Aisha Sabatini. “Mitigating the Silence.” Guernica. February 16, 2015. Web.
- “Poet of the Month: Kwame Dawes.” The Missing Slate. July 11, 2014. Web.
- David Ford, Eddie Garcia, and Bethany Chafin. “Summer Reads: Erin Gruwell, Bill Griffin,
Terri Kirby Erickson, Kwame Dawes, and Ken Ilgunas: Kwame Dawes.” 88.5 WFDD:
Public Radio for the Piedmont. July 4, 2014. Web. http://wfdd.org/post/summer-reads-
erin-gruwell-bill-griffin-terri-kirby-erickson-kwame-dawes-and-ken-ilgunas
- “Kwame Dawes: How I Write.” The Writer. June 24, 2014. Web.
- Handal, Nathalie. “The City and the Writer: In Kingston, Jamaica with Kwame Dawes.”
Words Without Borders. November 26, 2013. Web.
http://wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/the-city-and-the-writer-in-kingston-
jamaica-with-kwame-dawes
- Legro, Tom. “Death of Kofi Awoonor in Nairobi Attack Is 'Great Loss' for Ghana and
Poetry.” PBS NewsHour. September 25, 2013. Web.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/poetry/death-of-kofi-awoonor-in-nairobi-attack-is-great-
loss-for-ghana-and-poetry/
- Ahlström, Hans. “Interview with visiting award winning poet Kwame Dawes.” WNMU-FM:
Public Radio 90. March 28, 2013. Web. http://wnmufm.org/post/interview-visiting-
award-winning-poet-kwame-dawes
- Laux, Dorianne and Joseph Millar. “An Interview with Kwame Dawes.” American Poetry
Review 41.1 (January/February 2012): 25. Web.
- Sagastume, Patricia. “A Poetic Journey After The Quake: HIV/AIDs In Haiti.” WLRN:
Miami/South Florida. January 15, 2013. Web.
- Lord, Richard. “Q&A with Kwame Dawes.” South China Morning Post. November 11,
2012. Web.
- Jaynes, Jenna. “Interview: Prairie Schooner Magazine editor-in-chief, Dr. Kwame
Dawes.” YouTube. December 4, 2012. Web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrHebyhmQZE
- Langs, Sarah. “Ghanian poet Kwame Dawes discusses newly-established African Poetry
Book Series.” NY Daily News. 20 July 2012. Web.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/ghanian-poet-kwame-dawes-discusses-
newly-established-african-poetry-book-series-blog-entry-1.1638799
- Harlan-Orsi, Claire. “Kwame Dawes on his Guggenheim Fellowship!” Prairie Schooner:
The Blog. April 15, 2012. Web.
- zamantungwa. “Q&A: Kwame Dawes.” poetry potion. February 19, 2012. Web.
- “An Interview with Kwame Dawes.” The American Poetry Review 41.1 (January 2012):
25. Print.
- Camille Goodison. “The Harmonizer.” Guernica. December 15, 2011.
https://www.guernicamag.com/interviews/dawes_12_15_11/
- “Kwame Dawes with Chris Abani, Conversation, 29 September 2010.” From the Lannan
Foundation. Vimeo. September 29, 2010. Web. http://vimeo.com/19907737
- “Preserving Experience: Kwame Dawes on his New Poems from Jamaica” with Molossus,
December 5, 2009. Permanent short link at <http://wp.me/pfvQW-c9>.
- “HIV/AIDS in Jamaica: A Poet Responds." Interview with Felicia Pride on TheRoot.com.
August 5, 2009. http://www.theroot.com/blogs/books-root/hivaids-jamaica-poet-
responds.
- Dr. Caroline “Kay” Picart Second Kwame Dawes Interview. November 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEDQf3sTgFg
- Ross, Sassy. “The Art of Collaboration: An Interview with Kwame Dawes.” Calabash: A
Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters 5.1 (Summer/Fall 2008): 115-122. Web (available
as PDF online). http://www.nyu.edu/calabash/vol5no1/0501115.pdf