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Yale Literature
and Spirituality Series
Carolyn Forché, poet
October 6 at 4:15 pm, followed by a book-signing and reception.
Yale Divinity Book Supply, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven
Known as a “poet of witness,” 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 from the Yale University
Press. 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 translation of Alegria's work, Flowers From The Volcano,
was published by the University Pittsburgh Press in 1983, and that
same year, Writers and Readers Cooperative (New York and London)
published El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers, for
which she wrote the text. In 1991, The Ecco Press published her
translations of The Selected Poetry of Robert Desnos (with
William Kulik). 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.
Forché’s anthology, Against Forgetting: Twentieth
Century Poetry of Witness, was published by W.W. Norton &
Co. in 1993, and in 1994, her third book of poetry, The Angel
of History (HarperCollins, Publishers), was chosen for The
Los Angeles Times Book Award. In 1998 in Stockholm, she was given
the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture
Award, in recognition of her work on behalf of human rights and
the preservation of memory and culture. In April of 2000, Curbstone
Press published a new book of her translations of Claribel Alegría,
Sorrow. Her fourth book of poems, Blue Hour, was
published by HarperCollins in Spring, 2003. The book she co-translated,
Selected Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, was published by the
University of California Press in Fall, 2002. A chapbook selection
of that work was published by The Lannan Foundation Fall, 2001.
Carolyn Forché teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs,
New York, and also lives in Maryland with her husband, photographer
Harry Mattison, and their son, Sean-Christophe.
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