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Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott
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Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott

Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott

The New Yorker: Poetry

February 26, 202035m 30s

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Show Notes

Kwame Dawes joins Kevin Young to read “The Season of Phantasmal Peace,” by Derek Walcott, and his own poem “Before Winter.” Dawes is the author of over twenty books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. His many honors include a 2019 Windham Campbell Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Barnes and Noble Writers for Writers Award, and the Ford Prize for Poetry.

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