… and, speaking of Kwame Dawes: two days ago the PBS NewsHour programme ran a report on a project he recently worked on with the Pulitzer Centre on Crisis Reporting–a multimedia website looking at HIV in Jamaica, combining Dawes’s poetry with music, essays, and video. Read the transcript of the NewsHour segment here (or follow the links to the video); learn more about the “Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaiaca” project here; visit the project website here.
Dawes on PBS
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