12:21 AM - Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica

Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica

A poet goes back to Jamaica and discusses the effect aids has on communities. I would like to share this story with our community here on Poetry with meaning. I believe these people problems are very powerful and I acknowledge that we have problems as well. I would like to see us rise up and help combat some of these human problems that we have. This can be done through education and the help of some modern science. I would love to see more poetry that can inspire people to take action and come together as a community to combat disease. With the latest statistics showing that 1 in 4 teen girls have a std, I believe that our community can help push these statistics down

Thank you Bob Mortland

Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica

How it had me all I wanted was to do

was crawl in a ball and dead like that

but see me here now, see me here now,

man must live, iyah, man must live. -Kwame Dawes, Live Up

Poet and writer Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to explore the experience of people living with HIV/AIDS and to examine the ways in which the disease has shaped their lives. The journey brings him in touch with people who tell their stories, share their lives and teach him about resilience, hope and possibility in the face of despair. Some are living with the disease; others have committed their lives to HIV/AIDS care.

Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica is a multi-media reporting project: an extended essay by Kwame Dawes for The Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 2008), two short documentaries for the public-television program Foreign Exchange, a collection of poetry inspired by his reporting, a performance of the poems set to music by composer Kevin Simmonds, and LiveHopeLove.com, an interactive web presentation that synthesizes audio and text versions of the poems, the Foreign Exchange videos, additional video interviews, the music, and photography by Joshua Cogan.

Acknowledgements:

This reporting project was made possible through the support of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting in association with The Virginia Quarterly Review, Azimuth Media and bluecadet interactive. The Center funded Kwame Dawes’ travel costs and also commissioned the video documentary, photography and interactive web narrative that complement the reporting project.

Hope: Living and Loving with HIV in Jamaica is the second of two Caribbean reporting initiatives undertaken by the Pulitzer Center with support from the MAC AIDS Fund.

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4:04 PM - Mention in Teen Ink

I want to take the time to say thank you to Teen Ink (http://www.teenink.com) for their mention of us in their magazine and on their website... Thank you Teen Ink

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2:23 PM - Featured Poem... We need a banner

"We had some problems with the featured poem in the past. Thats why one of my really bad older poems was on there for about 3 weeks. Well, I am glad to say, we fixed it!!!! There will be a new featured poem each week.

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4:21 PM - Poetry and Winter
Category: Writing and Poetry

So, I am sitting here at my desk looking out the window to rain and dark skies. The rain forces me to stay inside and be productive because I am like a cat and am not a huge fan of water. That being said, I have noticed many new authors and poems being posted on this site. I want to believe that there is a correlation between the weather and people writing. I do not think that the sole reason is because the winter makes people more productive. I would argue that taken as a whole, the winter has characteristics that make us write.

I hope to read some great poetry and community articles this winter.

Stay dry and have a fun and safe winter

Bob Mortland

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