Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica
Kwame Dawes describes how the making of poems and the writing of news reports are parallel endeavors.
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Livehopelove.com feels like a plane ticket, a passport, something that helps you get from here to there.
Poet Kwame Dawes provided the words for HOPE & Wisteria, two back-to-back performance pieces that explore different aspects of the black experience.
In an interview on The Root, poet Kwame Dawes discusses his role and shares his experie
Although it's called the Black Theatre Festival, this biennial gathering of African-American artists draws creative people from all over the nation working in a variety of mediums.
Tune in to North Carolina Public Radio's "The Story" to hear Kwame Dawes talk about HOPE, his poetry that will be performed at the Natio
Dr Kwame Dawes will stage LIVE! HOPE! LOVE! at the Phillip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts at the University of the West Indies on Sunday at 11 a.m.
"Hope's Hospice," a collection of poetry by Kwame Dawes inspired by his Pulitzer Center-sponsored reporting in Jamaica, was called "sublime" in a review by The Jamaica Gleaner.
This week's poem by Kwame Dawes is entitled "Portmore."
A NewsHour poetry segment on poet and writer Kwame Dawes aired on Tuesday October, 7 on PBS.
HOPE: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica
Early last year, Annesha Taylor's face was plastered on billboards, posters and flyers across Jamaica. Dancing and smiling brightly, she looked vibrant in her yellow blouse. The caption told her...
In a society like Jamaica, any talk about HIV/AIDS is going to be about secrets, about taboos, and about the private lives of people.
There are two Jamaicas.
As featured on "Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal." A News and Politics editor's pick on YouTube, this video began airing on March 28, 2008.
As featured on "Foreign Exchange with Daljit Dhaliwal." Once a poster child for living HIV+ in Jamaica, Annesha Taylor knows firsthand that life after a positive diagnosis is not an easy one.
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Ghanaian-Jamaican writer and poet Kwame Dawes is the author of more than a dozen collections of verse, including the critically-acclaimed “Wisteria: Poems From the Swamp Country.” Dawes is also the...
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Poetry/Special Correspondent: Kwame Dawes
Executive Producer: Jon Sawyer
Producer/Videographer: Nathalie Applewhite
Producer/Videographer: Stephen Sapienza
Videographer: Doug Gritzmacher...