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Patrick Sylvain
Watson Institute for International Studies – Brown University
PBS News Hour features a poem written and read by Patrick Sylvain.
Filmed in January, 2010
- Who are you and what do you do? [0:29]
- What are the long-term effects of the earthquake on Haiti? [3:04]
- How did the U.S. respond to Haitian independence? [1:17]
- How did French colonialism affect Haiti? [0:50]
Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. He has been published in several anthologies, magazines and reviews, including African American Review, Agni, American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review, Haitian Times and Ploughshares. His latest book, Love, Lust & Loss/ Lanmou, anvi ak pedans, was published by Memoire d'Encrier in October 2005.
