Introduced by Tomni Dance, Dr. Kwame Dawes, internationally renowned poet, editor, and professor of English here at UNL will offer an intimate and informed examination of some of Bob Marley’s most iconic songs, “No Woman No Cry,”“Talkin' Blues,” and “Redemption Song,” exploring the ways in which Marley’s art and reggae music shaped his own understanding of self and beauty, giving Dawes a language and ethos for his own literary work, which seeks to make sense of the lived African diaspora of someone who was born in Ghana, grew up in Jamaica, and lived for twenty years in the US South.