Kwame Dawes with Chris Abani
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Wednesday 29 September 2010 7:00 pm |
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Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 West San Francisco Street |
Kwame Dawes
Kwame Dawes is a writer of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and plays. Born in Ghana in 1962, Dawes spent most of his chi… Read full bio.
Chris Abani
Chris Abani was imprisoned by the Nigerian regime for his writings when he was a teenager. Over two decades later, he… Read full bio.
About this Event
The house of the dead woman
flew half mast for two weeks;
shades all down and black,
the flowers drooping obediently,
and Jasmine the faithful domestic
would walk the slow drill of mourning,
burdened, her eyes carrying grief and loss
along the oak-lined avenue.
- From the poem “Good Help” in Wisteria: Twilight Poems from the Swamp Country.
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