Living and loving with HIV in Jamaica: four poems by Kwame Dawes

I’m going to break my informal rule against featuring slideshows today, because I think these are exceptionally well done. The poet is Kwame Dawes, and the photographer is Joshua Cogan. The slideshows were produced by the Pulitzer Center, and are only one facet of a multimedia website, Live Hope Love, which includes interviews, audio of many other poems, and more. Dawes took three trips to his native Jamaica to collect materials for the project; it resembled a regular work of investigative journalism in every way, except for the fact that one of the final products was a collection of poems. His mission, according to the Pulitzer Center: “to explore the experience of people living with HIV/AIDS and to examine the ways in which the disease has shaped their lives.”

2 Comments

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    Brenda 17 April, 2009

    Wow, these were very moving, and beautifully produced, thank you for posting, Dave.

    • Reply
      Dave Bonta 19 April, 2009

      Thanks for watching. Glad you liked.

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