Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 5 p.m.

Kwame Dawes joins Kevin Young to read \u201cThe Season of Phantasmal Peace,\u201d by Derek Walcott, and his own poem \u201cBefore Winter.\u201d 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.