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SUMMARY:The Center for Poetry presents Carolyn Forche in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:
 "The Poet in the World: Witness in the English 
 Tradition"\n
 Carolyn will discuss her travels 
 as a poet, meeting other poets in countries 
 that have suffered through war, and the view 
 of English-language poetry as written apolitically 
 in the ivory tower.\n
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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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 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:MSU Main Library W449
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