Kwame Dawes
Kwame Senu Neville Dawes (born 28 July 1962, Ghana) is a poet, actor, editor, critic, musician, and former Louis Frye Scudder Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of South Carolina. He is now Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and editor-in-chief at the Prairie Schooner. New York-based Poets & Writers has named Dawes as a recipient of the 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, which recognises writers who have given generously to other writers or to the broader literary community.
Life
He grew up in Jamaica where he attended Jamaica College and the University of the West Indies at Mona. He studied and taught in New Brunswick, Canada on a Commonwealth Scholarship. As a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick, he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Brunswickan.
From 1992–2012 he taught at the University of South Carolina as a Professor in English, Distinguished Poet in Residence, Director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative, and Director of the USC Arts Institute. He was also the faculty advisor for the publication Yemassee. He won the 1994 Forward Poetry Prize, Best First Collection for Progeny of Air. He is currently a Chancellor's Professor of English and Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a faculty member of Cave Canem, and a teacher in the Pacific MFA program in Oregon.
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The Threesome
by: ComediesSince you've become a whore I don't feel alright
I know you're pretty but you will not win a fight
Everything might seems go in the right verse
I think the only future for you is the porn universe
You leave me so speechless
When you say you don't feel like this
Congratulations for the threesome
So show me what you'd be
It's everything you need
All I'm doing is counting
1,2,3 more?
Give up, give it up baby you're so fragile can’t you
see?
I'm sorry honey I want no wankers over me
Twenty seconds, take a breath
Realize you'll never change
Honey you won't take away my rage
Congratulations for the threesome
So show me what you'd be
It's everything you need
All I'm doing is counting
Congratulations for the threesome
So show me what you'd be
It's everything you need
All I'm doing is counting
1,2,3 more?
Just take a breath, so take me off
I don't need your help to go on
I won't give a chance ... I'll put it off
I'll revive from the wreckage of my past
Congratulations for the threesome
So show me what you'd be
It's everything you need
All I'm doing is counting
Congratulations for the threesome
So show me what you'd be
It's everything you need
All I'm doing is counting
[laughters]