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