kwame dawes
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Lesson Touring the Penn Center, St. Helena’s, SC I am wading through the dark morass of history, Beaufort at dusk fills with humid air from the swamps and the mangrove of stagnant sea water’s calm rice ponds, and the muttering old spirits, the sharp lament of crickets and the trees close in on us. The…
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#7: If the poem came from God don’t ask me to edit God. #28: At their best our poems have taught us things we never knew we knew. We just have to let them. #29: Here is a tricky one: the poem is not so much in the image itself but in the moment that…
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Some time in the last two years, I decided to undertake a reading of epics (The Odyssey), verse novels (Omeros and Prophets, by Derek Walcott and Kwame Dawes, respectively). I called myself doing research for my own verse novel. Well. I got about more than half way through The Odyssey before I gave up the…
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Voices from Haiti: Storm (English Version) by Kwame Dawes English version of the visual poem Storm with poetry by Kwame Dawes, images by Andre Lambertson. For Malia Jean From here the mountains around Port-au-Prince are green; too far to see the denuded hillside, too far to see the brown wounds, too far to see the…
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Reggae for me is very much associated with the ’70’s, with a time of a lot of self-questioning, nationally, individually. And not just self-questioning, because also I think it was very much a time when people were open to ideas about what I will just loosely call the spiritual world, you know, the inner world.…
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