Poet and writer Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to explore the experience of people living with HIV/AIDS and to examine the ways in which the disease has shaped their lives. The journey brings him in touch with people who tell their stories, share their lives and teach him about resilience, hope and possibility in the face of despair.
Poetry Month: Live Hope Love
Published April 10, 2009
Alex Amend, Pulitzer Center
To help celebrate Poetry Month the Pulitzer Center will be posting poems from one of our grantees, Kwame Dawes. These poems come from the project Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica.
Screen shot from www.livehopelove.com
Last year Kwame took multiple trips to Jamaica to learn about people living with HIV/AIDS and to examine the ways in which the disease has shaped their lives. His work in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center culminated in the award-winning interactive web presentation www.livehopelove.com that synthesizes audio and text versions of the poems, videos, music, and photography by Joshua Cogan.
This week's poem is "Altar."
Stephen Sapienza crafts simple but compelling narratives, chronicling the lives and plights of everyday people, from the cities of Bangladesh to the streets of Sierra Leone, writes Ameto Akpe.
Pulitzer Center grantee Kwame Dawes reflects on his work in the Caribbean and his journey as a poet and documentarian.
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