The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective memory of migration, suffering and transformation while living in South Carolina.
As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the e… - Kwame Dawes
As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the e…
- Kwame Dawes
The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective … - Kwame Dawes
The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective …
I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the sa… - Kwame Dawes
I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the sa…
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from. - Kwame Dawes
I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.
This poet is a griot in search of a village. - Kwame Dawes
This poet is a griot in search of a village.
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. W… - Kwame Dawes
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. W…
I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal. - Kwame Dawes
I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.
All memory is fiction. - Kwame Dawes
All memory is fiction.
Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art… - Kwame Dawes
Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art…
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