News at Eleven: His eight poems "reflect what

I sense in the people I was dealing with, the resolve they have, the quest to maintain hope," [Kwame] Dawes said.

That hope is all the more amazing considering what has gone on in Haiti in the past year--the glacial pace of cleanup, a cholera outbreak that sickened nearly 100,000 and killed more than 2,000, a three-fold rise in rapes in the cramped tent cities and flooding from Hurricane Tomas. Despite that, there's less anger evident in the stories and photos than you might expect.

from The State: Haiti, through a poet's eyes

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