Kwame Dawes Reads Derek Walcott

Kwame Dawes joins Kevin Young to read “The Season of Phantasmal Peace (newyorker.com/magazine/1980/10/27/the-season-o…),” by Derek Walcott, and his own poem “Before Winter (newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/23/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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