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.”
