Poetry & Reggae: Interviews w Kwame Dawes and Ishion Hutchinson
Jacob White of "Jamaican Clash" presents two important interviews examining the intersection of poetry, liberation, and reggae music.
Kwame Dawes is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica as well as reggae scholar and the author of over 30 books. He's done award-winning reporting on AIDS in Haiti.
Ishion Hutchinson is the author of three poetry books and has won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Rome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and other honors. His newest book, School of Instructions: Poems, explores the role of West Indian soldiers in WWI.