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Kwame Dawes

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Poet and journalist <a href="http://www.kwamedawes.com/">Kwame Dawes</a> has traveled to Jamaica and Haiti to work on multimedia projects for the <a href="http://pulitzercenter.org">Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting</a>. In combining his poetry with the images of photographers <a href="http://www.joshuacogan.com/">Joshua Cogan</a> and <a href="http://www.alambertson.com/">Andre Lambertson</a>, the life circumstances of people living with HIV/AIDS are revealed. Dawes describes these photographers’ work as “rich with the possibility of language” and his poems as providing a “dialogue with their dance of light and moment.” The multimedia Web site for “<a href="http://www.livehopelove.com/">Hope: Living & Loving with HIV in Jamaica</a>,” a collaboration with Cogan, was awarded an Emmy last year in recognition of its new approach to news and documentary programming.

Bearing Witness: The Poet as Journalist

‘I stand as a witness to the silences—to what goes unspoken and ignored—to the things that float away as if insubstantial but that are filled with the simple breaths of…