Carolyn Louise Forché

Poet, memoirist, editor, translator, and teacher Carolyn Forché is currently University Professor at Georgetown University where she directs the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice.

Her books of poetry include Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, Gathering the Tribes and In the Lateness of the World.

Forché’s work, which encompasses the personal and the political, includes the ground-breaking anthology she edited – Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness  – which introduced the “poetry of witness.”

She is also a noted translator and teacher. Her translations of poets as various as Claribel Alegría, Mahmoud Darwish, Robert Desnos, and Georg Trakl, have won great critical acclaim.

Forché has won numerous grants and awards, including fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets.