{"id":6808,"date":"2019-02-25T11:32:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T16:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=6808"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:24:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T21:24:12","slug":"poet-kwame-dawes-to-give-reading-at-missouri-western-march-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2019\/02\/25\/poet-kwame-dawes-to-give-reading-at-missouri-western-march-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Kwame Dawes to give reading at Missouri Western March 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Feb. 25, 2019\u2014Poet, editor, and Emmy winner\u00a0Kwame\u00a0Dawes will give a public reading of his work at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, in the Potter Hall Theater on the campus of Missouri Western State University. \u201cVerse & Twirl: An Evening with Kwame\u00a0Dawes and MWSU Dancers\u201d is free and open to the public. Missouri Western dance students, led by Marla Heeler, will perform several choreographed adaptations of Dawes\u2019 poems before and after his reading. Dawes will sign copies of his books during a reception following the event.<\/p>\n

Kwame\u00a0Dawes has authored 35 books of poetry, fiction, criticism, and essays, including, most recently, Bivouac (Akashic Books, 2019) and City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern, 2017). Speak from Here to There (Peepal Tree Press), co-written with Australian poet John Kinsella, appeared in 2016. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and Chancellor\u2019s Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He is also a faculty member in the Pacific MFA Program. He is Director of the African Poetry Book Fund and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. Dawes is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2009, Dawes won an Emmy for LiveHopeLove.com, an interactive site based on Kwame Dawes\u2019s Pulitzer Center project, HOPE: Living and loving with AIDS in Jamaica.<\/p>\n

Copies of the Spring 2019 issue of The Mochila Review, Missouri Western\u2019s national undergraduate literary journal, will also be available at the event. The issue features an interview with Dawes, who served as guest judge for Mochila\u2019s annual contest for undergraduate writers. From more than 100 applicants, Dawes selected as the contest winner Jennifer Woolard\u2019s poem \u201cWhalebone,\u201d which will appear in The Mochila Review\u2019s Spring 2019 issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re honored to have an author of Dawes\u2019 caliber come to our campus,\u201d said Dr. Marianne Kunkel, editor of The Mochila Review. \u201cThis event is an incredible opportunity for our students to stand face-to-face with a successful author and editor, and I\u2019m thrilled that we can partner with MWSU\u2019s School of Fine Arts to showcase our student dancers as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dawes\u2019 appearance is made possible through a grant from the MWSU Arts Society, as well as support from Missouri Western\u2019s English and Modern Languages department, the St. Joseph Public Library, and Rolling Hills Public Library.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Dawes, visit\u00a0kwamedawes.com<\/a>. For more information about The Mochila Review, visit\u00a0mochilareview.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Missouri Western State University is a comprehensive regional university providing a blend of traditional liberal arts and professional degree programs. The university offers student-centered, high quality instruction that focuses on experience-based learning, community service, and state-of-the-art technology. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/em>www.missouriwestern.edu<\/em><\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feb. 25, 2019\u2014Poet, editor, and Emmy winner\u00a0Kwame\u00a0Dawes will give a public reading of his work at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, in the Potter Hall Theater on the campus of Missouri Western State University. \u201cVerse & Twirl: An Evening with Kwame\u00a0Dawes and MWSU Dancers\u201d is free and open to the public. Missouri Western dance students, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8896,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6808\/revisions\/8896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}