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 DawesOne of the blessings and curses of my life is that I carry so many projects at the same time.
Kwame DawesIn reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing - an object to be understood and shaped into my own sense of self, the same is true of the play, the novel, the short story. Yet, for some reason, I approach these existing genres with the kind of confidence that the reggae artist approaches any song floating around out there.
Kwame Dawes