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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forche at the Spring Poetry Festival
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 Renowned as a "poet of witness," Detroit native 
 and Michigan State University alumna Carolyn 
 Forché is the author of four books of poetry. 
 Her first poetry collection, "Gathering The 
 Tribes" (Yale University Press, 1976), won 
 the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award. In 1977, 
 she traveled to Spain to translate the work 
 of Salvadoran-exiled poet Claribel Alegrí­a, 
 and upon her return, received a John Simon 
 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, which enabled 
 her to travel to El Salvador, where she worked 
 as a human rights advocate. Her second 
 book, "The Country Between Us" (Harper and Row, 
 1982), received the Poetry Society of America's 
 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and was 
 also the Lamont Selection of the Academy of American 
 Poets. Her third book of poetry, "The 
 Angel of History" (HarperCollins, 1994), was 
 chosen for The Los Angeles Times Book Award. 
 "Blue Hour" is her fourth collection of poems 
 (HarperCollins, 2003). She is currently at 
 work on a memoir of her years in El Salvador, 
 Lebanon, South Africa, and France.\n
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 Carolyn 
 is the third and final poet featured in the 
 2015 Spring Poetry Festival, whose theme is 
 "Michigan Poets: Reading, Teaching, Writing." 
 The festival will also feature Dennis Hinrichsen 
 on April 1 and Terry Blackhawk on April 
 15-16. All events are free and open to the public.\n
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 Facebook 
 event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1537805436500107/\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: RCAH Center for Poetry at MSU\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://poetry.rcah.msu.edu/\n
 Contact name: Linnea Jimison\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-1932\n
 Contact email: cpoetry@msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://poetry.rcah.msu.edu/spring-poetry-festival.html\n
LOCATION:RCAH Theater (Snyder C20)
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