Carolyn Forche: 11-04-1982

In an interview recorded November 4, 1982, Carolyn Forché discusses her Slovak grandmother; living and writing poetry in El Salvador; and her education and process as a poet. Forché reads her poems Endurance and Selective Service.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/writers_videos/1025/thumbnail.jp

\u27Loosening the Emotional Knot \u27: A Conversation with Carolyn Forche

Poets Harriet Susskind and Stan Sanvel Rubin, speak with poet Carolyn Forche during a Writers Forum interview at the State University of New York College at Brockport on November 3, 1982. This interview was edited by Earl Ingersoll and Stan Sanvel Rubin

Keynote address and reading by Carolyn Forche - VIDEO

Poet, winner of the Yale Younger Poets Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lamont Award, Forche was a journalist for Amnesty International in El Salvador and served as Beirut correspondent for NPR\u27s All Things Considered. Her books include Gathering the Tribe, The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Against Forgetting: Twentieth Century Poetry of Witness. Forche will be introduced by Celeste Fremon, an award winning freelance journalist, and the author of G-Dog and the Homeboys and the upcoming, An American Family. She is the creator and editor of WitnessLA.com, a Senior Fellow for Social Justice/New Media at the Institute for Justice and Journalism, an adjunct professor at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism, and a Visiting Lecturer at UC Irvine where she teaches literary journalism as it relates to social justice

Carolyn Forche, 6th Annual ODU Literary Festival

Since the 1976 publication of her first book of poems, Gathering the Tribes, Carolyn Forche has been a major new voice in American poetry. Her work as a journalist and human-rights investigator in Europe and Central America led to her second poetry collection, The Country Between Us, which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of 1981 and received the coveted Di Castagnola award from the Poetry Society of America. Jacobo Timerman wrote, Latin America needs a poet to replace the man who represented in his writings the beauty, sufferings, fears and dreams of this continent: Pablo Neruda. Carolyn Forche is that voice. Irvin Ehrenpreis said, I do not know another poet writing in English today whose work has the force and drama of Carolyn Forche\u27s. Larry Levis observed, Forche\u27s subject, El Salvador, is one that could have been easily sentimentalized or sensationalized by a lesser poet. And yet it is spoken of here with honesty and tenderness, even amid its tortures. Denise Levertov remarked, Here\u27s a poet who\u27s doing what I want to do. On Thursday afternoon Forche will discuss poetry and answer questions from the audience. Her evening poetry reading will conclude the 1983 literary festival

SJU Class of 1987 Commencement Celebration

May 24, 1987 One-Hundred and Thirtieth Year Abbey & University Church Saint John\u27s University Ms. Carolyn Forche was the guest speaker and Anthony Gabriel Amon was the student speaker