Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché is the author of five books of poetry, most recently In the Lateness of the World (Penguin Press, 2020). Other works include Blue Hour (2004), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Angel of History (1995), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award, The Country Between Us (1982), winner of the Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and Gathering the Tribes (1976), winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize. Her book What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press, 2019) won the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her anthology Against Forgetting was praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.” She was one of the first poets to receive the Windham Campbell Prize from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and in 1998 in Stockholm she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Prize. She has translated the poetry of Claribel Alegría, Robert Desnos, and Mahmoud Darwish. She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and Lannan Foundation. She is professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and lives in Maryland with her husband, photographer Harry Mattison.
Photo Credit: Don J. Usner
Carolyn Forché elsewhere on Lannan.org
Carolyn Forché with James Longenbach, (Events)Adrienne Rich with Carolyn Forché, (Events)
Jimmy Santiago Baca with Carolyn Forché, (Events)
Carolyn Forché, (Literary: Awards, Fellowships, and Grants)
Michael Ondaatje with Carolyn Forché, (Events)
Carolyn Forché, (Literary: Awards, Fellowships, and Grants)
Carolyn Forché Podcasts
Carolyn Forche with James Longenbach, 21 May 2003 - audioJimmy Santiago Baca with Carolyn Forché, 15 September 2010 – Audio
Jimmy Santiago Baca, Reading 15 September 2010 - video
Jimmy Santiago Baca with Carolyn Forche, Conversation, 15 September 2010 - video
Michael Ondaatje with Carolyn Forché, 15 February 2012 – Audio
Michael Ondaatje with Carolyn Forché, Reading, 15 February 2012 – Video
Michael Ondaatje with Carolyn Forché, Conversation, 15 February 2012 – Video
Carolyn Forché around the Web
Photos of the 15 September 2010 Event on FlickrPhotos of the 15 February 2012 Event on Flickr