Carolyn Forche

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Carolyn Forché (born April 28, 1950) is an American poet, editor, professor, translator, and human rights advocate.

She has received many awards for her literary work.

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Career

Gathering the Tribes (1976), Forché's first poetry collection, received the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, resulting in Yale University Press publication. Claribel Alegra's translation, as well as the work of Georg Trakl and Mahmoud Darwish, were granted a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1977, enabling her to travel to El Salvador, where she was mentored by Leonel Gómez Vides.

The Country Between Us (1981), Margaret Atwood's second book, received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and the Academy of American Poets' Lamont Poetry Selection. Forché has obtained three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Performing Arts, and in 1992, he was awarded the Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship. The Robert Creeley Award, the Windham-Campbell Prize, the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation Award for Peace and Culture, and the Denise Levertov Award are among the many honors given.

In 1993, her book Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, was published in 1993, and her third book of poetry, The Angel of History (1994), was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The Colonel is her best-known poem (The Country Between Us). She is also a trustee for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her articles and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Esquire, Mother Jones, Boston Review, and others.

Blue Hour, her fourth book of poems, was published in 2003. A memoir, The Horse on Our Balcony (2010, HarperCollins); a book of essays (2011, HarperCollins); and a fifth collection of poems In the Lateness of the World (Bloodaxe Books, 2020).

What You Have Heard is True was named a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction in October 2019. The 2019 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America went to her book What You Have Heard: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance.

Among Mahmoud Darwish's translations are Selected Poems (2003), Claribel Alegr's Sorrow (1999), and Robert Desnos' Selected Poetry (with William Kulik for the Modern English Poetry Series, 1991). She has read poetry in France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Russia, Czestoch, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Bulgaria, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, Finland, Sweden, South Africa's Republic, Zimbabwe, Libya, Colombia, Mexico, and Canada. Her poetry books have been translated into Swedish, German, and Spanish. Individual poems have been translated into more than twenty other languages.

Despite Forché's being referred to as a political poet, she sees herself as a poet who is politically involved. She responded to controversies surrounding whether or not her writing in the aftermath of extremity in the twentieth century by releasing poems describing what she had personally experienced in El Salvador at the start of the Salvadoran Civil War. She suggested that such papers not be read less "political" than rather "poetry of witness." Her own aesthetic is more of a rendered experience and in times of skepticism than one of ideology or agitprop.

Forché is particularly interested in the effect of political uncertainty on the poet's language use. Against Forgetting was designed to gather poets whose reputations had suffered during the twentieth century, whether by their participation or force of circumstance. These experiences included war, military service, torture, torture, coercion, forced exile, censorship, and house arrest. The anthology, which includes the writing of one hundred and forty-five poets in English and translated from over thirty languages, begins with the Armenian Genocide and concludes with the assassination of the pro-Democracy movement in Tiananmen Square. Although she was not led in her decisions by the poets' political or ideological convictions, Forché believes that sharing of anemetic experience would be transformative, rather than personal identity. Terrence des Presence, Hannah Arendt, Martin Buber, Simone Weil, and Emmanuel Levinas were all influenced by her research.

Forché is also influenced by her Slovak family's history, particularly the life of her grandmother, an immigrant whose family was detained during the Nazi occupation of former Czechoslovakia. Forché was raised in Rome, and her devotional and spiritual themes are present in her work.

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