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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Carolyn Forche
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 Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1950, 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. Forché is perhaps best-known 
 for coining the term "poetry of witness." In 
 her ground-breaking anthology, Against Forgetting: 
 Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993), 
 Forché presented poets who had written 
 under extreme conditions, including war, exile, 
 and imprisonment. Forché's first poetry collection, 
 Gathering The Tribes, won the Yale 
 Series of Younger Poets Award from the Yale 
 University Press. Her second book, The Country 
 Between Us, 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 translation of Alegria's 
 work, Flowers From The Volcano, was published 
 in 1983, and that same year, Writers and 
 Readers Cooperative published El Salvador: Work 
 of Thirty Photographers, for which she wrote 
 the text. In 1991, her translations of The 
 Selected Poetry of Robert Desnos, with William 
 Kulik, was published. Her articles and reviews 
 have appeared in The New York Times, The 
 Washington Post, The Nation, Esquire, Mother 
 Jones, and others. Forché has held three fellowships 
 from The National Endowment for the 
 Arts, and in 1992 received a Lannan Foundation 
 Literary Fellowship.   Carolyn Forché, poet, 
 editor, translator, and activist, teaches in 
 the M.F.A. Program in Poetry at George Mason 
 University in Virginia, and lives in Maryland 
 with her husband, Harry Mattison and their 
 son, Sean-Christophe. Born in Detroit, she graduated 
 with a B.A. in 1972 from Justin Morrill 
 College, a residential college at MSU devoted 
 to the liberal arts.\n
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 Cosponsored by the 
 RCAH Center for Poetry\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: Administration\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://www.lib.msu.edu\n
 Contact name: Holly Flynn\n
 Contact phone: 517-884-0901\n
 Contact email: flynnhol@msu.edu\n
LOCATION:Main Library North Conference Room, W449
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