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Dr. Spaulding, my MCOM407 professor, sent me an email with this link simply in it. The subject read: Journalism and Poetry. She had me hooked. I clicked the link and it went to Mindy McAdams “Teaching Online Journalism” blog. She had featured this photostory that a man named Kwame Dawes created.
McAdams talks about the uniqueness of this project because of the poetry that Dawes uses instead of the typical monotone nararator voice of most multimedia journalism porjects. The project talks about HIV in Jamaica. Writer and poet, Kwame Dawes travels to Jamaica to explore how HIV has effected the lives of natives.
He has a series of poems, slideshows, documentaries and essays compiled on one website. These poems are amazing. Hearing them in his voice with the power of the photographs adds to the awesome-ness of this project. Click on the picture to go to the website.
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