The Poet and the Poem
2024-25 Series

Featured Carolyn Forché

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Carolyn Forché's first volume of poetry, Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour. In March, 2020, Penguin Press published her fifth collection of poems, In the Lateness of the World, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is also the author of the memoir What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Press, 2019), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. Her famed international anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as "itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice." In 1998 in Stockholm, she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award for her human rights advocacy and the preservation of memory and culture. She has received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship in Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Fellowship and the Lannan Award for Poetry. She is one of the first poets to receive the Wyndham Campbell Prize from the Beinecke Library at Yale University. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Royal Academy of Literature (UK) and is a Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

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