Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1950. She is the author of several poetry collections, including The Country Between Us (1982), which won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award; Gathering the Tribes (1976); and Blue Hours (2004). She has been honored with fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has also received the Windham-Campbell Prize and the James Laughlin Award. Carolyn Forché teaches at Georgetown University and directs the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. She lives in Washington, D.C.
Audio Recordings with Carolyn Forché
- Carolyn Forche and George Starbuck reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, October 26, 1982