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Carolyn Forche
Theresa Rebeck
Ruth Ozeki
Women Playwrights
Festival

An Evening with Carolyn Forche.
Carolyn Forché is known as a political poet, calling herself a "poet of witness". Growing up in Detroit in the 1950’s, poet Carolyn Forché recalls discovering photographs from a Nazi concentration camp in Look Magazine. After her mother confiscated the journal and hid it, young Forche re-confiscated it, marking perhaps the beginning of a poetic vocation devoted to exposing tyranny, injustice, and bearing witness to the atrocities of the 20th century.

Discussion led by Amy Wheeler

Running time: 90 minutes
Recommended for ages TBD and above.



The Author

Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit , Michigan , in 1950. She studied at Michigan State University and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University . Forché is the author of four books of poetry: Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2004); The Angel of History (1994), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; The Country Between Us (1982), which received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and Gathering the Tribes (1976), which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Stanley Kunitz. She is also the editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993). Among her translations are Mahmoud Darwish's Unfortunately, It Was Paradise : Selected Poems with Munir Akash (2003), Claribel Alegria's Flowers from the Volcano (1983), and Robert Desnos's Selected Poetry (with William Kulik, 1991). Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1992, she received the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum. Carolyn Forché teaches in the MFA Program at George Mason University in Fairfax , Virginia .

The Literary Series Team

Stacie Burgua (WICA Executive Director), Amy Wheeler (Hedgebrook Executive Director), Deana Duncan (WICA Production Director), Vito Zingarelli (Hedgebrook Residency Director), Jason Dittmer (WICA Director of Marketing), M. Louise McKay (Hedgebrook Director of Donor Relations & Fund Development)






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