Carolyn Forché’s first volume of poetry, Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour. In March 2020, Penguin Press published her fifth collection of poems, In the Lateness of the World. Forché is also the author of the memoir What You Have Heard Is True, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Her famed international anthology, Against Forgetting, was praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.” In 1998, Forché received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award in Stockholm for her human rights advocacy and the preservation of memory and culture. She has received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship in Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Foundation Fellowship and Award. Forché is one of the first poets to receive the Wyndham Campbell Prize from the Beinecke Library at Yale University and is a University Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
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In the sixth and final virtual event in the Spring 2021 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series: Together, poet and memoirist Carolyn Forché will read from her work, sharing selections from her poetry collection In the Lateness of the World and from What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. The reading will be followed by a live Q&A moderated by assistant professor of literatures in English Valzhyna Mort.
Forché imparts, “I will read poetry concerning human endurance, refuge, and transport. I will also read from a memoir that takes the reader on the journey I took as a young woman to a country on the verge of war.”
According to the Poetry Foundation, “Poet, teacher, and activist Carolyn Forché has witnessed, thought about, and put into poetry some of the most devastating events of twentieth-century world history.”
Forché imparts, “I will read poetry concerning human endurance, refuge, and transport. I will also read from a memoir that takes the reader on the journey I took as a young woman to a country on the verge of war.”
According to the Poetry Foundation, “Poet, teacher, and activist Carolyn Forché has witnessed, thought about, and put into poetry some of the most devastating events of twentieth-century world history.”
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Carolyn Forché
Poet, Memoirist, and University Professor
Georgetown University
Poet, Memoirist, and University Professor at Georgetown University
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2021-04-29 19:002021-04-29 20:00Zalaznick Reading SeriesAdd to CalendarIn the sixth and final virtual event in the Spring 2021 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series: Together, poet and memoirist Carolyn Forché will read from her work, sharing selections from her poetry collection In the Lateness of the World and from What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. The reading will be followed by a live Q&A moderated by assistant professor of literatures in English Valzhyna Mort.
Forché imparts, “I will read poetry concerning human endurance, refuge, and transport. I will also read from a memoir that takes the reader on the journey I took as a young woman to a country on the verge of war.”
According to the Poetry Foundation, “Poet, teacher, and activist Carolyn Forché has witnessed, thought about, and put into poetry some of the most devastating events of twentieth-century world history.”https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K042921a/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
Forché imparts, “I will read poetry concerning human endurance, refuge, and transport. I will also read from a memoir that takes the reader on the journey I took as a young woman to a country on the verge of war.”
According to the Poetry Foundation, “Poet, teacher, and activist Carolyn Forché has witnessed, thought about, and put into poetry some of the most devastating events of twentieth-century world history.”https://ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/view/K042921a/primaryAmerica/New_YorkeCornell
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