Poem by Linton Kwesi Johnson, read live at the 16th International Festival of Poetry in Medellin, Columbia in 2006
New Word Hawda (New Word Order) by Linton Kwesi Johnson
July 22nd, 2009 § Tagged: Spoken Word, Linton Kwesi Johnson, England, Jamaica, Festival Internacional de Poesía en Medellín
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Living and loving with HIV in Jamaica: four poems by Kwame Dawes
April 17th, 2009 § Tagged: Miscellaneous, Kwame Dawes, The Pulitzer Center, Jamaica, Joshua Cogan
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I’m going to break my informal rule against featuring slideshows today, because I think the following 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.”
