Carolyn Forché discusses her new memoir, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. Praise for What You Have Heard Is True “In this searing, vital memoir, Carolyn Forché at last ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. “Who is Gómez? Nobody knows.” The person who issued this cryptic statement was none other than Gómez ...
It’s as a 27-year-old Catholic-schooled writer teaching in Southern California that Carolyn Forché first opens her door to an enigmatic Salvadoran man, Leonel Gomez Vides. With his polymath mind and ...
The poet Carolyn Forché begins her gripping new memoir with a commission from an imperious, mysterious stranger. Leonel Gómez, the cousin of a friend, has driven three days, all the way from El ...
Poet, human rights activist and Georgetown professor Carolyn Forché was the recipient of this year’s Academy of American Poets fellowship. Forché currently serves as director of the Lannan Center for ...
The colonel spilled out a grocery bag of human ears in front of Carolyn Forche. That grim scene inspired Forche’s poem “The Colonel,” from her collection “The Country Between Us,” about her harrowing ...
Carolyn Forché, poet, translator and now professor at Georgetown University, has written a gripping memoir of the poverty, violence and instability endured by the Salvadoran people prior to the nation ...
Caspar Weinberger (far right) and Salvadoran Minister of Defense Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova in 1983. (AP / Romero) This past winter, after the Trump administration appointed Elliott Abrams as its ...
The poet Carolyn Forché was 27 when a stranger showed up on her doorstep, unrolled a giant sheet of paper on her dining room table, and proceeded to give her a masterclass in Central American ...
Finalists for the National Book Awards, winners of which will be announced on November 20, include Ilya Kaminsky, László Krasznahorkai and Carolyn Forché. Kaminsky, a Ukrainian-born Jewish poet, is ...
The poet Carolyn Forché has devoted much of her career to writing what she calls the poetry of witness. She coined the term in her introduction to Against Forgetting, a 1993 anthology in which she ...
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