This Spring, the OA will focus on food.
Through fresh reporting, in-depth profiles, and daring personal essays, this issue will explore what we eat: people, industries, and tastes that both build and challenge our ideas of Southern food.
Kwame Dawes
About
Kwame Dawes, author of nineteen books of poetry, also writes fiction, criticism, and essays. He has edited more than a dozen anthologies. His most recent collection, City of Bones: A Testament, appears from Northwestern University Press in 2016. He is Glena 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.