WISTERIA: POEMS FROM THE SWAMP COUNTRY
Wisteria is Kwame Dawes s eleventh collection of verse since his first book, Progeny of Air, won the Forward Poetry Prize in 1994. Dawes is the Distingusihed Poet-in-Residence at the University of South Carolina, where he is director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and The University of South Carolina Arts Institute. Dawes is Programming Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival.