Carolyn Forché
FLORENCE – The University of North Alabama will host Carolyn Forché as a guest of the UNA Writer’s Series on March 10 at 11 a.m. in the Performance Center of the Guillot University Center. Forché will present a reading from her books What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance and Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness. After her reading, there will be a book signing event and a reception at 12:30 p.m. in the GUC Loft.
“The UNA Writer’s Series is very pleased to welcome renowned ‘Poet of Witness’ Carolyn Forché for its 39th annual reading,” said Dr. Cynthia Burkhead, Chair of the Department of English. “Forché is an award-winning poet whose work for much of her career has been interested in the effects of global traumatic experiences on the victims as well as on the poet ‘witness.’ UNA is especially fortunate to host Forché so soon after the release of her 2019 book, What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance.”
Forché is an accomplished poet of witness, memoirist, editor, and human rights activist. Her award-winning poetry collections include Gathering the Tribes, The Country Between Us, Blue Hour, and In the Lateness of the Hour. Forché’s memoir, What You Have Heard is True, was named a New York Times Notable Memoir in 2019. She edited and introduced Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witnes. This landmark anthology of 140 poets from five continents captures witnessed extremes of human activity from war to repression.
The UNA Writer’s Series is sponsored by the University of North Alabama English Department. The event is free and open to the public.
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