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.
Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica
Pulitzer Center grantee Kwame Dawes reflects on his work in the Caribbean and his journey as a poet and documentarian.
When Disaster Strikes: Reporting and Responding is an international conference that will explore the collaboration and tension between journalists and public health workers at times of crisis.
Poet Kwame Dawes speaks at Georgetown University
Poet Kwame Dawes speaks at the 2011 Annual Conference for the Association for Writers and Writing Program
Kwame Dawes discusses his poetry and his projects with the Pulitzer Center, including the Emmy Award-winning LiveHopeLove.com, during the workshop "Poetry as Multimedia Documentary." Other participants scheduled to participate are Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, Erika Meitner, Natasha Trethewey and Ted Genoways.
Kwame Dawes describes how the making of poems and the writing of news reports are parallel endeavors.
Ghanaian-Jamaican writer and poet Kwame Dawes is the author of over a dozen collections of verse, including the critically-acclaimed "Wisteria: Poems From the Swamp Country." He has worked on the
Produced by Stephanie Guyer-Stevens and Jack Chance of Outer Voices, and Nathalie Applewhite of the Pulitzer Center, the radio documentary, "LiveHopeLove: HIV/AIDS in Jamaica" is part of Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica, the Pulitzer Center's award-winning multimedia reporting project that chronicles poet and writer Kwame Dawes' travels to Jamaica, where he explores the experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS and examines the ways in which the disease shapes their lives.
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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...