Tribute

Jacques Roche: poetry watches, accuses, and does not forget

The poet's verses speak of the tragedy of a people who are robbed of the right to even imagine tomorrow.

Par Widly Jean
15 Oct 2026 — Lecture : 5 min.
Jacques Roche: poetry watches, accuses, and does not forget

Jaques Roche, le poète assassiné

Through a pen haunted by memory and traversed by the pain of Haiti, poet Widly JEAN revives the memory of Jacques Roche, journalist, poet, and performer, who was murdered in July 2005. By making his verses resonate, his struggles, and the silences of a justice that eludes, he restores to this man a presence that violence could not erase. His tribute transcends the fate of a single poet: it brings us back to our own humanity, to our collective responsibility, and to this land that still bleeds, even as it so desperately needs its chil

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