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Pulitzer Center Update April 22, 2010

Writer Kwame Dawes Discusses the Intersection of Poetry and Journalism

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The people of Port-au-Prince will forever measure their lives in two parts: before and after the...

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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 Emmy Award-winning Pulitzer Center reporting project Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica and is currently working on Resilience in a Ravaged Nation: Haiti, After the Earthquake.

In this interview, Dawes discusses his work in Jamaica and Haiti and his use of poetry in journalism projects.

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Poet and writer Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to explore the experience of people living with HIV...

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