Kwame Dawes lee «Cómo me convertí en un apóstol» de su libro: Nebraska. Kwame Dawes es autor de veintiún libros de poesía y muchos otros libros de ficción, crítica y ensayos.Da clases en la Universidad de Nebraska y el Programa Pacific MFA. Es director del African Poetry Book Fund y director artístico del Festival Literario Internacional Calabash. Su libro de Poemas mas reciente es Nebraska, 2021.

Kwame Dawes reads «How I Became an Apostle» from his book: Nebraska. Kwame Dawes is the author of twenty-one books of poetry and numerous other books of fiction, criticism, and essays. In 2016 his book, Speak from Here to There, a co-written collection of verses with Australian poet John Kinsella appeared. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testament (Northwestern University Press) will appear in 2017. He is Glenna Luschei Editor of Prairie Schooner and teaches at the University of Nebraska and the Pacific MFA Program. He is Director of the African Poetry Book Fund and Artistic Director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. «In Nebraska, this beautiful and evocative collection of poems, Dawes explores a theme constant in his work—the intersection of memory, home, and artistic invention. The poems, set against the backdrop of Nebraska’s discrete cycle of seasons, are meditative even as they search for a sense of place in a new landscape».