The Personal & the Political: An Evening with Carolyn Forché

4/6/17- Carolyn Forché’s first volume, Gathering the Tribes (Yale University Press, 1975), winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by The Country Between Us (Harper & Row, 1981), The Angel of History (HarperCollins, 1994), and Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2003). She has translated Mahmoud Darwish, Claribel Alegría, and Robert Desnos. Her famed international anthology, Against Forgetting (W.W. Norton, 1983), has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice,” and is followed by the 2014 anthology The Poetry of Witness (W.W. Norton). In 1998 in Stockholm, she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award for her human rights advocacy and the preservation of memory and culture. She is currently at work on a memoir.

04/18/2017

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Forché discussed her extensive travels and experiences amidst her readings

Forché discussed her extensive travels and experiences amidst her readings

Carolyn Forché was the third guest at the Literary House's series, "The Personal & the Political."

Carolyn Forché was the third guest at the Literary House's series, "The Personal & the Political."

Dr. Hall and Forché chatting before the event.

Dr. Hall and Forché chatting before the event.

Carolyn Forché read from her works, including her haunting poem, "The Colonel.

Carolyn Forché read from her works, including her haunting poem, "The Colonel.

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Dr. Hall introduced Forché for her reading.

Dr. Hall introduced Forché for her reading.