Department of English Writers Series: Carolyn Forché October 13, 2011

Carolyn Forché is the author of four award-winning books of poetry, translator of three books, and editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness. Her poetry has been translated into more than 20 languages. A human rights activist for more than 30 years, she was presented in 1998 with the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation Award for Peace and Culture for her work on behalf of human rights and the preservation of memory and culture. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently teaches at Georgetown University, where she also directs the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice.

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