Podcast appearances and mentions of carolyn forch

Fernando Valverde (Granada, 1980) has been voted the most relevant Spanish-language poet born since 1970 by nearly two hundred critics and researchers from more than one hundred international universities (Harvard, Oxford, Columbia, Princeton, Bologna, Salamanca, UNAM and the Sorbonne).His books have been published in different countries in Europe and America and translated into several languages. He has received some of the most prestigious awards for poetry in Spanish, including the Federico García Lorca, the Emilio Alarcos del Principado de Asturias and the Antonio Machado. His last book, The Insistence of Harm, received the Book of the Year award from the Latino American Writers Institute of the City University of New York.For ten years he has worked as a journalist for the Spanish newspaper El País. He directs the International Festival of Poetry in Granada and is a professor at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville, EEUU).His last bilingual book, America, has been published by Copper Canyon Press with translation by Carolyn Forché.In 2022, Fernando Valverde published the first biography of the poet Percy B. Shelley in Spanish and in 2024 he published a monumental biography of Lord Byron. Valverde is considered one of the greatest specialists in Romanticism today.-bio via FernandoValverde.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Pulitzer finalist discusses her Memoir, "What You Have Heard Is True."

In this week's episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet and writer, Carolyn Forché. Coiner of the term “poetry of witness,” she is frequently characterized as a political poet; she calls for poetry to invest in the “social.” She published her first book of poetry, Gathering the Tribes, in 1975. Forché received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship after translating the work of Salvadoran-exiled poet Claribel Algería in 1977; the fellowship enabled her to work as a human rights advocate in El Salvador. She has published five books of poetry and the 2019 memoir What You Have Heard Is True. Her work is often described as “devastating” due to its searing honesty and unflinching accounting of travesties. Forché has been given various awards in recognition of her work on behalf of human rights and the preservation of culture and memory.This episode includes a reading of her poem, “The Boatman”  featured in our 2023 Get Lit Anthology.“The Boatman”We were thirty-one souls all, he said, on the gray-sick of seain a cold rubber boat, rising and falling in our filth.By morning this didn't matter, no land was in sight,all were soaked to the bone, living and dead.We could still float, we said, from war to war.What lay behind us but ruins of stone piled on ruins of stone?City called “mother of the poor” surrounded by fieldsof cotton and millet, city of jewelers and cloak-makers,with the oldest church in Christendom and the Sword of Allah.If anyone remains there now, he assures, they would be utterly alone.There is a hotel named for it in Rome two hundred metersfrom the Piazza di Spagna, where you can have breakfast underthe portraits of film stars. There the staff cannot do enough for you.But I am talking nonsense again, as I have since that nightwe fetched a child, not ours, from the sea, drifting face-down in a life vest, its eyes taken by fish or the birds above us.After that, Aleppo went up in smoke, and Raqqa came under a rainof leaflets warning everyone to go. Leave, yes, but go where?We lived through the Americans and Russians, through Americansagain, many nights of death from the clouds, mornings surprisedto be waking from the sleep of death, still unburied and alivebut with no safe place. Leave, yes, we obey the leaflets, but go where?To the sea to be eaten, to the shores of Europe to be caged?To camp misery and camp remain here. I ask you then, where?You tell me you are a poet. If so, our destination is the same.I find myself now the boatman, driving a taxi at the end of the world.I will see that you arrive safely, my friend, I will get you there.Support the showSupport the show

ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson UPPLÄSNING: Angela Kovács DIKT: ”Fyrvaktaren” av Carolyn ForchéDIKTSAMLING: Mot slutet (Rámus, 2020) I original kommer dikten från samlingen In the Lateness of the World, 2020. MUSIK: Harry Gregson-Williams: You saved meEXEKUTÖR: Harry Gregson-Williams

Piše: Tonja Jelen Bereta: Barbara Zupan in Igor Velše Zbirka esejev Na kraju zapisano prinaša dvanajst esejev, ki jih je pesnik, pisatelj in esejist Aleš Šteger napisal v dvanajstih letih v prav toliko mestih po svetu. S tremi spremnimi eseji in poglobljenim razmišljanjem o krajih so s delu poklonili Péter Nádas, Alberto Manguel in Carolyn Forché. Šteger svojo esejsko pot začenja v izložbi znane ljubljanske veleblagovnice. Pri tem popisu je izjemno natančen in pronicljiv, saj se poglablja v dele dneva in akterje tistega decembrskega dne leta 2012. S socialnim čutom obravnava posameznike in posameznice, pri čemer pa ne izpušča takratnih okoliščin, na primer prazničnega razpoloženja in protestov hkrati. To mešanje živosti okoliščin in orisi ljudi pa so dodatno približani s fotografijami – neobdelanimi večkrat posnetimi na hitro, kar deluje zelo neposredno. Prav tako direktno deluje Šteger s komentarji, ki delujejo kot obžalovanje in slaba ravnanje. V primerjavi z drugimi eseji v knjigi Na kraju zapisano je prav »ljubljanski« najbolj razgaljajoč in intimen. O vlogi in pomenu pesnika avtor piše predvsem na osebni ravni, ne toliko kolektivni, kar počne v nadaljevanju obsežne knjige. Ta se nadaljuje z obiskom Minamisōme na Japonskem. Prav ta esej je po svoji tenkočutnosti in razmislekih o pomenu človeštva in o tem, kaj ga osmišlja, eden najboljših. Vprašanj o človekovem obstoju se loteva s konkretnimi primeri, vezanimi na tragedije Japonske. Te prenaša na obče, obenem pa poudarja upanje in boj, trdoživost ljudi. Seveda sta pomembna budnost in obstoj zapisanega: »Dokler bodo stale knjižnice, tako dolgo bodo ljudje kot skupnost imeli možnost biti budni (no, vsaj relativna večina). Ker obenem, ko si ogledujemo hrbte in platnice knjig, ko listamo, ne listamo le po znakih iz življenj tistih, ki so knjige napisali, ilustrirali, jih uredili, tehnično opremili, natisnili in izdali, marveč obenem vzpostavljamo drobna žarišča za vse druge, ki vede ali nevede obnavljajo isti ritual, ter jih utrjujemo v njihovem početju. To v tem osamljenem svetu daje moč in upanje. Še posebej v svetu, kjer je pod vprašaj postavljen vsakdanji človeški obstoj.« Ta citat je kot moto celotne knjige Na kraju zapisano, pri čemer umetnik z lastnimi vpogledi interpretira zgodovino posameznih mest in jih primerja s sedanjostjo. Pri tem zna ostro obsoditi zločine v času druge vojne in čistk, hkrati pa poudarja spoznanje o vnovičnem vzponu sovraštva proti kakršni koli tujosti in drugosti. To doseže s sočnim jezikom, odrezavimi kratkimi povedmi in seveda z ostrimi navedenimi primeri. In zato imajo pomembno mesto književna umetnost in knjižnice, ki naj bi človeku dajale upanje in smisel obstoja. Prav ljudje, ki mu podajajo zgodbe, so vzeti kot sli. Ključni vidiki, ki jih Šteger poudarja v esejih, so kritika kapitalizma, nenehna digitalizacija, širjenje strahu in otopelosti. Napisani so bili v večini pred koronskim obdobjem in krutim obleganjem Ukrajine. Večina esejev deluje celostno in poglobljeno, le zadnji esej je krajši in v primerjavi s prejšnjimi napisan preveč filmsko in nekoliko površno. Kot res izjemne eseje bi po preciznosti izraza in občutenja izpostavila še Šanghaj, Solovki in Beograd. Vendar avtor ni pozoren samo na prej naštete težave, gre tudi za obstoj manjših jezikov in tradicionalnih kultur. V esejih jasno pokaže svoje stališče do izginjanja kultur pod velikimi pritiski globalizacije. Kritičen pa ni le on, ampak tudi pogledi ljudi, ki jih srečuje na poti. Ti eseji so kot zemljevidi intimnih zapisov, ki prikazujejo mesta po svetu z vsemi njihovimi trpkostmi, in so hkrati esejistov razmislek o času-prostoru. Postopek opazovanja je dosežen. Šteger tako ni le opazovalec in opazovani, ki piše. V vseh esejih v knjigi Na kraju zapisano sta pomembna vzgib za sočloveka in poudarek na eksistenci posameznika in skupnosti. Ponujajo nam duhovni kompas, ki ga bralstvo nenehno potrebuje, ne glede na to, v katerem obdobju se očitno znajde. Pri tem pa niso pomembna samo fizična, temveč tudi mentalna potovanja znotraj sebe.

Sophia Terazawa introduces poems that lead us to encounter both the beloved and the enemy, seeing them blurred and intertwined—seeing them as human. She shares Joy Harjo's prayer of courage for the heart (“This Morning I Pray for My Enemies”), Khaled Mattawa's recognition of the faceless dead (“Face: To the One Million Plus”), and Carolyn Forché's liturgy for the last hour (“Prayer”). To close, Terazawa reads her poem “Gibbons Howling,” a prayer spoken from dreams into dust.    Watch the full recordings of Harjo, Mattawa, and Forché reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Joy Harjo (2017)Khaled Mattawa (2018)Carolyn Forché (2007)

As past panelists for the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards, Traci Brimhall, Melissa Faliveno, and Tanya Rey share what it was like to read and judge applications. They discuss what made an application stand out, how writers can craft the narrative and philosophy statements to good effect, the importance of submitting polished work, the inherent subjectivity of the process, persistence in the face of rejection, and more.   About the Panelists: Traci Brimhall's fifth poetry collection, Love Prodigal, will be published by Copper Canyon Press in 2024. She is also the author of Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod (Copper Canyon Press, 2020); Saudade (Copper Canyon Press, 2017); Our Lady of the Ruins (W.W. Norton, 2012), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets Prize; and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). Her children's book, Sophia & The Boy Who Fell, was published by SeedStar Books in March 2017.   Melissa Faliveno is the author of the debut essay collection Tomboyland, named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, New York Public Library, Oprah Magazine, and Electric Literature and recipient of a 2021 Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement from the Wisconsin Library Association. Her writing has appeared in Esquire, Paris Review, Bitch, Literary Hub, Ms Magazine, Brooklyn Rail, Prairie Schooner, and in the anthology Sex and The Single Woman (Harper Perennial, 2022).   Tanya Rey is a queer Cuban-American writer whose work has appeared in Guernica, Granta, The Sun, Roads & Kingdoms, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Georgia Review, and Catapult, among others. She holds an MFA from New York University and has received fellowships from The Georgia Review, Rona Jaffe Foundation, San Francisco Writers Grotto, MacDowell, Hedgebrook, UCross, Blue Mountain Center, I-Park, and others. Rey has worked as managing editor for One Story and fiction editor for Epiphany and has taught creative writing at New York University and Writing Pad in San Francisco.   Page Count is produced by Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library. For full show notes and a transcript of this episode, visit the episode page. To get in touch, email ohiocenterforthebook@cpl.org (put “podcast” in the subject line) or follow us on Twitter or on Facebook.

Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840, poetry has played an outsized role in Ukrainian culture. "Our anthology begins: Letters of the alphabet go to war and ends with I am writing/ and all my people are writing," note the editors of this volume, acclaimed poets Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky. "It includes poets whose work is known to thousands of people, who are translated into dozens of languages, as well as those who are relatively unknown in the West." The poems in In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) offer a startling look at the way language both affects and reflects the realities of war and extremity. This anthology is sure to become the classic text marking not only one of the darkest periods in Ukrainian history, but also a significant moment in the universal struggle for democracy and human rights. Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures (Indiana University, 2022). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840, poetry has played an outsized role in Ukrainian culture. "Our anthology begins: Letters of the alphabet go to war and ends with I am writing/ and all my people are writing," note the editors of this volume, acclaimed poets Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky. "It includes poets whose work is known to thousands of people, who are translated into dozens of languages, as well as those who are relatively unknown in the West." The poems in In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) offer a startling look at the way language both affects and reflects the realities of war and extremity. This anthology is sure to become the classic text marking not only one of the darkest periods in Ukrainian history, but also a significant moment in the universal struggle for democracy and human rights. Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures (Indiana University, 2022). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literature

Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840, poetry has played an outsized role in Ukrainian culture. "Our anthology begins: Letters of the alphabet go to war and ends with I am writing/ and all my people are writing," note the editors of this volume, acclaimed poets Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky. "It includes poets whose work is known to thousands of people, who are translated into dozens of languages, as well as those who are relatively unknown in the West." The poems in In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) offer a startling look at the way language both affects and reflects the realities of war and extremity. This anthology is sure to become the classic text marking not only one of the darkest periods in Ukrainian history, but also a significant moment in the universal struggle for democracy and human rights. Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures (Indiana University, 2022). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840, poetry has played an outsized role in Ukrainian culture. "Our anthology begins: Letters of the alphabet go to war and ends with I am writing/ and all my people are writing," note the editors of this volume, acclaimed poets Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky. "It includes poets whose work is known to thousands of people, who are translated into dozens of languages, as well as those who are relatively unknown in the West." The poems in In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) offer a startling look at the way language both affects and reflects the realities of war and extremity. This anthology is sure to become the classic text marking not only one of the darkest periods in Ukrainian history, but also a significant moment in the universal struggle for democracy and human rights. Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures (Indiana University, 2022). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/eastern-european-studies

Ukraine may be the only country on earth that owes its existence, at least in part, to a poet. Ever since the appearance of Taras Shevchenko's Kobzar in 1840, poetry has played an outsized role in Ukrainian culture. "Our anthology begins: Letters of the alphabet go to war and ends with I am writing/ and all my people are writing," note the editors of this volume, acclaimed poets Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky. "It includes poets whose work is known to thousands of people, who are translated into dozens of languages, as well as those who are relatively unknown in the West." The poems in In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine (Arrowsmith Press, 2023) offer a startling look at the way language both affects and reflects the realities of war and extremity. This anthology is sure to become the classic text marking not only one of the darkest periods in Ukrainian history, but also a significant moment in the universal struggle for democracy and human rights. Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures (Indiana University, 2022). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but Vladimir Putin's forces have been nibbling at the edges of the country since 2014. Or one could say that the war began “long before 2014 by way of colonial imperial politics, suppression of language cultures, mass hunger, and terror,” as the poets Carolyn Forché and Ilya Kaminsky write in the introduction to In the Hour of War, their new anthology of contemporary Ukrainian poetry. “This is a poetry marked by a radical confrontation with the evil of genocide,” they write. “Does poetry have the tensile strength to embody such a confrontation?” The anthology seeks to answer that question with the help of its diverse contributors: “soldier poets, rock-star poets, poets who write in more than one language, poets whose hometowns have been bombed and who have escaped to the West, poets who stayed in their hometowns despite bombardments, poets who have spoken to parliaments and on TV, poets who refused to give interviews, poets who said that metaphors don't work in wartime and poets whose metaphors startle.” Forché joins us this week on the podcast to talk about the surprising “life-giving force of these poems.”Go beyond the episode:In the Hour of War: Poetry from Ukraine, edited by Carolyn Forché and Ilya KaminskyListen to Serhiy Zhadan's “Take Only What Is Most Important” on our Read Me a Poem podcastRead Megan Buskey's essay on the long, unfortunate history of Ukrainian displacementTune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek. Follow us on Twitter @TheAmScho or on Facebook.Subscribe: iTunes • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! Our theme music was composed by Nathan Prillaman. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

DIKT: "Envoi" ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson UPPLÄSNING: Robert Fux Efter Rysslands fullskaliga invasion av Ukraina i februari 2022 började dikter ur Ilya Kaminskys andra diktsamling ”De dövas republik” cirkulera flitigt. Det var dikter om krig, våld och motstånd som tycktes tala direkt om dagens situation. Boken, som utgavs i original 2019 och kom på svenska 2021, berättar om en ockuperad stad, där hela befolkningen väljer att sluta höra sedan en döv pojke skjutits till döds av soldaterna. Som i ett drama möter vi ett antal personer som drabbas av förtrycket men vägrar ge upp.Ilya Kaminsky föddes 1977 i Odessa i Ukraina, i dåvarande Sovjetunionen. Vid fyra års ålder förlorade han hörseln, vilket han själv uppger som en förklaring till rikedomen av bilder i hans poesi. Hans familj var judisk och flyttade från Ukraina till USA 1993 på grund av antisemitiska trakasserier. Den mycket uppmärksammade debuten ”Dansa i Odessa” från 2004 (i svensk översättning 2023) skildrar såväl barndomsstaden som exilen och anknyter till ryskspråkiga poeter som Joseph Brodsky och Marina Tsvetajeva. Kaminsky är också verksam som översättare och har 2023 tillsammans med kollegan Carolyn Forché publicerat en antologi med ukrainsk poesi, ”In the Hour of War”.DIKTSAMLING: Dansa i Odessa (Rámus, 2023)MUSIK: Harald Haugaard: MorgenEXEKUTÖR: Harald Haugaard, fiol

DIKT: "Författarens bön" ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson UPPLÄSNING: Robert Fux Efter Rysslands fullskaliga invasion av Ukraina i februari 2022 började dikter ur Ilya Kaminskys andra diktsamling ”De dövas republik” cirkulera flitigt. Det var dikter om krig, våld och motstånd som tycktes tala direkt om dagens situation. Boken, som utgavs i original 2019 och kom på svenska 2021, berättar om en ockuperad stad, där hela befolkningen väljer att sluta höra sedan en döv pojke skjutits till döds av soldaterna. Som i ett drama möter vi ett antal personer som drabbas av förtrycket men vägrar ge upp.Ilya Kaminsky föddes 1977 i Odessa i Ukraina, i dåvarande Sovjetunionen. Vid fyra års ålder förlorade han hörseln, vilket han själv uppger som en förklaring till rikedomen av bilder i hans poesi. Hans familj var judisk och flyttade från Ukraina till USA 1993 på grund av antisemitiska trakasserier. Den mycket uppmärksammade debuten ”Dansa i Odessa” från 2004 (i svensk översättning 2023) skildrar såväl barndomsstaden som exilen och anknyter till ryskspråkiga poeter som Joseph Brodsky och Marina Tsvetajeva. Kaminsky är också verksam som översättare och har 2023 tillsammans med kollegan Carolyn Forché publicerat en antologi med ukrainsk poesi, ”In the Hour of War”.DIKTSAMLING: Dansa i Odessa (Rámus, 2023)MUSIK: Johannes Brahms: FeldeinsamkeitEXEKUTÖR: Zuill Beiley, cello och Awadagin Pratt, piano

DIKT: Ur "Lovsång" ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson UPPLÄSNING: Robert Fux Efter Rysslands fullskaliga invasion av Ukraina i februari 2022 började dikter ur Ilya Kaminskys andra diktsamling ”De dövas republik” cirkulera flitigt. Det var dikter om krig, våld och motstånd som tycktes tala direkt om dagens situation. Boken, som utgavs i original 2019 och kom på svenska 2021, berättar om en ockuperad stad, där hela befolkningen väljer att sluta höra sedan en döv pojke skjutits till döds av soldaterna. Som i ett drama möter vi ett antal personer som drabbas av förtrycket men vägrar ge upp.Ilya Kaminsky föddes 1977 i Odessa i Ukraina, i dåvarande Sovjetunionen. Vid fyra års ålder förlorade han hörseln, vilket han själv uppger som en förklaring till rikedomen av bilder i hans poesi. Hans familj var judisk och flyttade från Ukraina till USA 1993 på grund av antisemitiska trakasserier. Den mycket uppmärksammade debuten ”Dansa i Odessa” från 2004 (i svensk översättning 2023) skildrar såväl barndomsstaden som exilen och anknyter till ryskspråkiga poeter som Joseph Brodsky och Marina Tsvetajeva. Kaminsky är också verksam som översättare och har 2023 tillsammans med kollegan Carolyn Forché publicerat en antologi med ukrainsk poesi, ”In the Hour of War”.DIKTSAMLING: Dansa i Odessa (Rámus, 2023)MUSIK: Thomas Tracy: Lifting spiritsEXEKUTÖR: Julia Gaines, marimba

DIKT: "I fredstid" ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson UPPLÄSNING: Robert Fux Efter Rysslands fullskaliga invasion av Ukraina i februari 2022 började dikter ur Ilya Kaminskys andra diktsamling ”De dövas republik” cirkulera flitigt. Det var dikter om krig, våld och motstånd som tycktes tala direkt om dagens situation. Boken, som utgavs i original 2019 och kom på svenska 2021, berättar om en ockuperad stad, där hela befolkningen väljer att sluta höra sedan en döv pojke skjutits till döds av soldaterna. Som i ett drama möter vi ett antal personer som drabbas av förtrycket men vägrar ge upp.Ilya Kaminsky föddes 1977 i Odessa i Ukraina, i dåvarande Sovjetunionen. Vid fyra års ålder förlorade han hörseln, vilket han själv uppger som en förklaring till rikedomen av bilder i hans poesi. Hans familj var judisk och flyttade från Ukraina till USA 1993 på grund av antisemitiska trakasserier. Den mycket uppmärksammade debuten ”Dansa i Odessa” från 2004 (i svensk översättning 2023) skildrar såväl barndomsstaden som exilen och anknyter till ryskspråkiga poeter som Joseph Brodsky och Marina Tsvetajeva. Kaminsky är också verksam som översättare och har 2023 tillsammans med kollegan Carolyn Forché publicerat en antologi med ukrainsk poesi, ”In the Hour of War”.DIKTSAMLING: De dövas republik (Rámus, 2021)MUSIK: Anthony Baird: SolitudeEXEKUTÖR: Exist strategy

DIKT: "Soldater siktar på oss" ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson UPPLÄSNING: Robert Fux Efter Rysslands fullskaliga invasion av Ukraina i februari 2022 började dikter ur Ilya Kaminskys andra diktsamling ”De dövas republik” cirkulera flitigt. Det var dikter om krig, våld och motstånd som tycktes tala direkt om dagens situation. Boken, som utgavs i original 2019 och kom på svenska 2021, berättar om en ockuperad stad, där hela befolkningen väljer att sluta höra sedan en döv pojke skjutits till döds av soldaterna. Som i ett drama möter vi ett antal personer som drabbas av förtrycket men vägrar ge upp.Ilya Kaminsky föddes 1977 i Odessa i Ukraina, i dåvarande Sovjetunionen. Vid fyra års ålder förlorade han hörseln, vilket han själv uppger som en förklaring till rikedomen av bilder i hans poesi. Hans familj var judisk och flyttade från Ukraina till USA 1993 på grund av antisemitiska trakasserier. Den mycket uppmärksammade debuten ”Dansa i Odessa” från 2004 (i svensk översättning 2023) skildrar såväl barndomsstaden som exilen och anknyter till ryskspråkiga poeter som Joseph Brodsky och Marina Tsvetajeva. Kaminsky är också verksam som översättare och har 2023 tillsammans med kollegan Carolyn Forché publicerat en antologi med ukrainsk poesi, ”In the Hour of War”.DIKTSAMLING: De dövas republik (Rámus, 2021)MUSIK: Anders Jormin: NäraEXEKUTÖR: Entra

DIKT: "Dansa i Odessa" ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson UPPLÄSNING: Robert Fux Efter Rysslands fullskaliga invasion av Ukraina i februari 2022 började dikter ur Ilya Kaminskys andra diktsamling ”De dövas republik” cirkulera flitigt. Det var dikter om krig, våld och motstånd som tycktes tala direkt om dagens situation. Boken, som utgavs i original 2019 och kom på svenska 2021, berättar om en ockuperad stad, där hela befolkningen väljer att sluta höra sedan en döv pojke skjutits till döds av soldaterna. Som i ett drama möter vi ett antal personer som drabbas av förtrycket men vägrar ge upp.Ilya Kaminsky föddes 1977 i Odessa i Ukraina, i dåvarande Sovjetunionen. Vid fyra års ålder förlorade han hörseln, vilket han själv uppger som en förklaring till rikedomen av bilder i hans poesi. Hans familj var judisk och flyttade från Ukraina till USA 1993 på grund av antisemitiska trakasserier. Den mycket uppmärksammade debuten ”Dansa i Odessa” från 2004 (i svensk översättning 2023) skildrar såväl barndomsstaden som exilen och anknyter till ryskspråkiga poeter som Joseph Brodsky och Marina Tsvetajeva. Kaminsky är också verksam som översättare och har 2023 tillsammans med kollegan Carolyn Forché publicerat en antologi med ukrainsk poesi, ”In the Hour of War”.DIKTSAMLING: Dansa i Odessa (Rámus, 2023)MUSIK: Rebekka Karijord: Waltz for NormaEXEKUTÖR: Exekutör Rebekka Karijord, röst och diverse instrument

12.5.22 "Writing Kept Hidden" by Carolyn Forché 12.6.22 "Lost Glove" by Charles Simic 12.7.22 "Why My Mother's Teeth Remained in Cuba" by EJ Vega in Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets 12.8.22 "Provincetown" by Afaa Michael Weaver 12.9.22 "Quartet" by Robert Hass 12.10.22 "sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn" by Tyehimba Jess 12.11.22 "Saturday at the Border" by Hayden Carruth 12.12.22 from Kyrie by Ellen Bryant Voigt 12.13.22 "The Gate" by Marie Howe 12.14.22 XXXI from The Desert of Lop by Raoul Schrott

Avtorica, ki je za svoje delo prejela številna priznanja in nagrade, je bila letos častna gostja na festivalu Dnevi poezije in vina. Ob tej priložnosti je pri nas izšel izbor njenega pesniškega ustvarjanja z naslovom Kamnolom duš (izbrala in prevedla Kristina Kočan, Beletrina, 2022). V svojih pesmih Carolyn Forché spodkopava slogovne postopke in se v njih deklarira kot pričevalka zgodovine, zato je ena od glavnih komponent njene poezije moč spomina. Čeprav njen pesniški opus – napisala je tudi knjigo spominov Kar ste slišali, je res – ni obsežen, velja za eno najvidnejših imen sodobne ameriške poezije. O njej je med drugim razmišljala tudi v pričujočem pogovoru. Foto: Gregor Podlogar

On November 1, 2022 the Lannan Center hosted a reading and talk featuring writer Chen Chen and moderated by Carolyn Forché. Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (BOA Editions, 2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and three editions of The Best American Poetry. He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He was the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University and currently teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. He lives with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish was born in al-Birwa in Galilee, a village that was occupied and later razed by the Israeli army. Because they had missed the official Israeli census, Darwish and his family were considered “internal refugees” or “present-absent aliens.” Darwish lived for many years in exile in Beirut and Paris. He is the author of over 30 books of poetry and eight books of prose, and earned the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize from the Lannan Foundation, the Lenin Peace Prize, and the Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres Medal from France.In the 1960s Darwish was imprisoned for reciting poetry and traveling between villages without a permit. Considered a “resistance poet,” he was placed under house arrest when his poem “Identity Card” was turned into a protest song. After spending a year at a university of Moscow in 1970, Darwish worked at the newspaper Al-Ahram in Cairo. He subsequently lived in Beirut, where he edited the journal Palestinian Affairs from 1973 to 1982. In 1981 he founded and edited the journal Al-Karmel. Darwish served from 1987 to 1993 on the executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. In 1996 he was permitted to return from exile to visit friends and family in Israel and Palestine.Mahmoud Darwish's early work of the 1960s and 1970s reflects his unhappiness with the occupation of his native land. Carolyn Forché and Runir Akash noted in their introduction to Unfortunately It Was Paradise (2003) that “as much as [Darwish] is the voice of the Palestinian Diaspora, he is the voice of the fragmented soul.” Forché and Akash commented also on his 20th volume, Mural: “Assimilating centuries of Arabic poetic forms and applying the chisel of modern sensibility to the richly veined ore of its literary past, Darwish subjected his art to the impress of exile and to his own demand that the work remain true to itself, independent of its critical or public reception.” Mahmoud Darwish died in 2008 in Houston, Texas.From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mahmoud-darwish. For more information about Mahmoud Darwish:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Fatima Bhutto about Darwish, at 19:15: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-116-fatima-bhuttoA River Dies of Thirst: Journals: https://archipelagobooks.org/book/a-river-dies-of-thirst/“Mahmoud Darwish”: https://poets.org/poet/mahmoud-darwish“In Memory of Mahmoud Darwish”: https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2008-fall/selections/in-memory-of-mahmoud-darwish/

Today's poem is The Lightkeeper by Carolyn Forché.

New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever traces the links between anti-Semitism now and pogroms in the former Soviet Union and the language used to describe this form of racism. Brendan McGeever lectures at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck University of London. You can hear him discussing an exhibition at the Jewish Museum exploring racial stereotypes in a Free Thinking episode called Sebald, anti-Semitism, Carolyn Forché https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050d2 New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year to turn their research into radio. Producer: Robyn Read

Author Nina Burleigh and Greg Olear discuss the past and future of the women's rights movement, the unintended consequences of overturning Roe, the similarities between MAGA men and ISIS men, and suggestions for summer reading. Plus: a new golf center that's fun for the whole family. Follow Nina Burleigh: https://twitter.com/ninaburleigh Nina's new piece: https://www.salon.com/2022/08/02/the-gilead-playbook-right-wing-extremists-are-making-fiction-come-true_partner/ Buy Nina's book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691352/virus-by-nina-burleigh/ References: “Town Bloody Hall,” a documentary film about the debate between Norman Mailer and Germaine Greer: https://www.criterion.com/films/30213-town-bloody-hall Red Scare podcast: https://redscarepodcast.com/ Carolyn Forché memoir: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/586566/what-you-have-heard-is-true-by-carolyn-forche/ The quote: https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780191826719.001.0001/q-oro-ed4-00016553 Subscribe to the PREVAIL newsletter: https://gregolear.substack.com/about Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish was born in al-Birwa in Galilee, a village that was occupied and later razed by the Israeli army. Because they had missed the official Israeli census, Darwish and his family were considered “internal refugees” or “present-absent aliens.” Darwish lived for many years in exile in Beirut and Paris. He is the author of over 30 books of poetry and eight books of prose, and earned the Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize from the Lannan Foundation, the Lenin Peace Prize, and the Knight of Arts and Belles Lettres Medal from France.In the 1960s Darwish was imprisoned for reciting poetry and traveling between villages without a permit. Considered a “resistance poet,” he was placed under house arrest when his poem “Identity Card” was turned into a protest song. After spending a year at a university of Moscow in 1970, Darwish worked at the newspaper Al-Ahram in Cairo. He subsequently lived in Beirut, where he edited the journal Palestinian Affairs from 1973 to 1982. In 1981 he founded and edited the journal Al-Karmel. Darwish served from 1987 to 1993 on the executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. In 1996 he was permitted to return from exile to visit friends and family in Israel and Palestine.Mahmoud Darwish's early work of the 1960s and 1970s reflects his unhappiness with the occupation of his native land. Carolyn Forché and Runir Akash noted in their introduction to Unfortunately It Was Paradise (2003) that “as much as [Darwish] is the voice of the Palestinian Diaspora, he is the voice of the fragmented soul.” Forché and Akash commented also on his 20th volume, Mural: “Assimilating centuries of Arabic poetic forms and applying the chisel of modern sensibility to the richly veined ore of its literary past, Darwish subjected his art to the impress of exile and to his own demand that the work remain true to itself, independent of its critical or public reception.” Mahmoud Darwish died in 2008 in Houston, Texas.From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mahmoud-darwish. For more information about Mahmoud Darwish:Previously on The Quarantine Tapes:Fatima Bhutto about Darwish, at 19:15: https://quarantine-tapes.simplecast.com/episodes/the-quarantine-tapes-116-fatima-bhutto“Mahmoud Darwish”: https://poets.org/poet/mahmoud-darwishIn the Presence of Absence: https://archipelagobooks.org/book/in-the-presence-of-absence/“Mahmoud Darwish”: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/mahmoud-darwish/

On Tuesday, April 12, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Victoria Chang and Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Hosted by Carolyn Forché. Introductions by Lannan Fellows Max Zhang and Hiruni Herat.  About Victoria ChangVictoria Chang's new book of poetry, The Trees Witness Everything is forthcoming (Copper Canyon Press and Corsair Books in the U.K.). Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions), was published in 2021. OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), her most recent poetry book, was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Time Must-Read Book, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also longlisted for a National Book Award and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and lives in Los Angeles and is a Core Faculty member within Antioch's low-residency MFA Program.About Rachel Eliza GriffithsRachel Eliza Griffiths is a poet, visual artist, and novelist. Her hybrid collection of poetry and photography, Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton), was published in 2020. Other poetry collections by Griffiths include Lighting the Shadow (Four Way Books, 2015), The Requited Distance (Sheep Meadow Press, 2011), Mule & Pear (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2011), and Miracle Arrhythmia (Willow Books, 2010). Griffiths is a recipient of fellowships including Cave Canem, Kimbilio, Millay Colony, Vermont Studio Center, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Yaddo. Her forthcoming debut novel, Promise, will be published by Random House.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

Amanda Holmes reads Gabriela Mistral's poem “Kisses,” translated from the Spanish especially for this podcast by Carolyn Forché. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you'll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On February 8th, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Mark Nowak. Moderated by Carolyn Forché.About Mark NowakMark Nowak is the author of four poetry collections: Social Poetics (Coffee House Press, 2020), Coal Mountain Elementary (2009), Shut Up Shut Down (2004), and Revenants (2000). Also a playwright, essayist, social critic, and labor activist, Nowak's writing documents the hardships and injustices faced by the global working class. Nowak is the recipient of the Freedom Plow Award for Poetry & Activism from Split This Rock and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has taught at St. Catherine University and Washington College, where he also worked as director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House. He has also led poetry workshops for workers and trade unions in Belgium, the Netherlands, the U.K., the U.S., and South Africa. He is currently Professor of English at Manhattanville College and the founding director, in collaboration with PEN America, of the Worker Writers School.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

On January 25th, 2022, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poets Valzhyna Mort and Michael Prior. Moderated by Carolyn Forché.About Valzhyna Mort Valzhyna Mort is a poet and translator born in Minsk, Belarus. She is the author of three poetry collections, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press 2008), Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press 2011) and, mostly recently, Music for the Dead and Resurrected (FSG, 2020). Mort is a recipient of fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Amy Clampitt residency, and the Civitella Raineri residency. Her work has been honored with the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry and the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, New Yorker, Poetry, Poetry Review, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, Granta, Gulf Coast, White Review, and many more. With Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris, Mort co-edited Gossip and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems and Prose. Mort teaches at Cornell University and writes in English and Belarusian. About Michael PriorMichael Prior is a writer and teacher born in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of two books of poems: Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2020), which won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and the BC & Yukon Book Prizes' Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Model Disciple (Véhicule Press, 2016). Prior is the recent recipient of fellowships from the New York Public Library's Cullman Center, the Jerome Foundation, and Hawthornden Literary Retreat. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The New Republic, Narrative Magazine, the Sewanee Review, PN Review, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day series, and elsewhere. He is an Assistant Professor of English and an ACM Mellon Faculty Fellow at Macalester College.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

James and Aaron revisit Reginald Shepherd's poem "The Gods at 2 A.M." Then they play a round of Top, Bottom, Verse where they ponder the erotic styles of poets like Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, and Mona van Duyn. Reginald Shepherd's blog can be found here. His books are still in print and were all published by the University of Pittsburgh Press (under the fabulous direction of Ed Ochester):Some Are Drowning (1994; chosen by Carolyn Forchè for the AWP Award in Poetry)Angel, Interrupted (1996)Wrong ( 1999)Otherhood (2003)Fata Morgana (2007)Red Clay Weather (2011).You can read the interview we reference in Callaloo here. Shepherd held a BA from Bennington College and MFAs from the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and from Cornell. He was born on April 10, 1963 and died September 10, 2008. He appeared in four editions of Best American Poetry and in two Pushcart Prize anthologies. Mona van Duyn was the US Poet Laureate from 1992-1993.

On October 12th, 2021, the Lannan Center presented a reading and talk featuring poet Jericho Brown. Introduction by Carolyn Forché.About Jericho BrownJericho Brown is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brown's first book, Please (2008), won the American Book Award. His second book, The New Testament (2014), won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was named one of the best of the year by Library Journal, Coldfront, and the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of the collection The Tradition (2019), which was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award and the winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His poems have appeared in Buzzfeed, The Nation, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, Time, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, and several volumes of The Best American Poetry anthologies. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing and the Director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University in Atlanta.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

Amanda Holmes reads Carolyn Forché's poem “The Lightkeeper.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you'll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Audrey Morris, one of the people I chat with most in Instagram about books and baking, joins me to talk books. She also shares about some award lists that have her looking forward to the next few months.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 228: Full of Secrets Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed:    Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan VreelandA Spare Life by Lidija Dimkovska, translated by Christina E. KramerIn the Lateness of the World by Carolyn ForchéThe Woman from Uruguay by Pedro Mairal, translated by Jennifer CroftThat Time of Year by Marie Ndiaye, translated by Jordan StumpOther mentions:Barkskins by Annie ProulxReadalong informationThe Eighth Life by Nino HaratischviliPachinko by Min Jin LeeLife After Life by Kate AtkinsonWretchedness by Andrzej TichyThe Yellow House by Sarah M. BroomDishoom by Shamil ThakrarThe Employees by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin AitkenWhen We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan WestIn Memory of Memory by Maria StepanovaConsent by Annabel LyonSummer Brother by Jaap RobbenGirl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy ChevalierCatch the Rabbit by Lana BastasicWhat You Have Heard is True by Carolyn ForchéDeaf Republic by Ilya KaminskyThe Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra by Pedro MairalCensus by Jesse BallThe Essex Serpent by Sarah PerryCutting for Stone by Abraham VargheseBeyond Babylon by Igiaba ScegoAdua by Igiaba ScegoThe Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila HarrisSorrow by Claribel AlegriaHomesick by Jennifer CroftLight Perpetual by Francis SpuffordRelated episodes: Episode 088 - Author Head Space with Sara MooreEpisode 112 - Reset Button with Eleanor ThoeleEpisode 195 - Muchness with NadineEpisode 207 - Innocent and Ruthless with Tricia DeeganEpisode 212 - Subtly Fascinating with VinnyStalk me online:Audrey is @dreesreads on InstagramAudrey at GoodreadsJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

Amanda Holmes reads Mahmoud Darwish's poem “Those Who Pass Between Fleeting Words,” translated especially for this podcast by Carolyn Forché. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you'll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

"El general" es un poema crudo y doloroso de la norteamericana Carolyn Forché, quien es testigo de la atrocidades que se vivieron en la guerra civil del Salvador. Este poema pertenece a El país entre nosotros (1981) traducido por nuestra querida amiga @andrearivas.ig Los invitamos a escucharlo en voz de @teresa_vichi No olviden compartirlo si les gustó, seguirnos en YouTube y en todas nuestras redes sociales.

Música, memoria y miedo. Cincuenta días de escritura, lectura y reflexión. Desde el domingo 15 de marzo hasta el domingo 3 de mayo de 2020, Alfonso Armada escribió "Cuánto pesa una cabeza. Diario de un virus coronado por el miedo", que publica Vaso Roto Ediciones. En el origen del libro ("que empezó por y para él, llamándole queda e insistentemente a conversar") Paul Celan. El 20 de abril se cumplirán 50 años de su muerte. Otros autores sumados al diálogo: Louise Glück, Anne Carson, Matsuo Basho, Carolyn Forché, Cioran, Simone Weil, Osip Mandelstam, Anna Ajmátova... Escuchar audio

On April 13, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring  Carolyn Forché. Moderated by Penn Szittya of the Lannan Foundation.Carolyn Forché's first volume of poetry, Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour. In March, 2020, Penguin Press published her fifth collection of poems, In the Lateness of the World. She is also the author of the memoir What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Press, 2019), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Juan E. Mendez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America. She has translated Mahmoud Darwish, Claribel Alegria, and Robert Desnos. Her international anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice.” In 1998 in Stockholm, she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award for her human rights advocacy and the preservation of memory and culture. She is one of the first poets to receive the Wyndham Campbell Prize from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, and recently received a Lannan Award for Poetry. She is a University Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.Penn Szittya is the former Chair of the English Department at Georgetown University, where he specialized in medieval poetics and social practice. He also taught at Emory, Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and Boston University. He helped launch the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown, and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

On March 16, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Poet Laureate Joy Harjo, as part of "THIS LAND" the 2021 Lannan Center Symposium. Moderated by poet Carolyn Forché.About Joy HarjoIn 2019, Joy Harjo was appointed the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold the position. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harjo is an internationally known award-winning poet, writer, performer, and saxophone player of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Harjo’s nine books of poetry include An American Sunrise, Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings, How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems, and She Had Some Horses. Harjo’s memoir Crazy Brave won several awards, including the PEN USA Literary Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the American Book Award. She is the recipient of the Ruth Lilly Prize from the Poetry Foundation for Lifetime Achievement, the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets for proven mastery in the art of poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the United States Artist Fellowship.About Carolyn ForchéCarolyn Forché is the former Director of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice and a University Professor in the Department of English at Georgetown University. She is most recently the author of the poetry collection In the Lateness of the World: Poems (Penguin, 2020) and the memoir What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Random House, 2019).  She has been a human rights activist for over thirty years.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

In conversation with Jacinda Barrett, Traveler, Actress on Netflix Bloodline, Writer, Mother, Wife and all the rest of it. Beth Kephart is the author of more than 30 books across a wide range of genres, including poetry, young adult fiction, and, most notably, the memoir. These works include the award-winning how-to-guide, Handling the Truth; A Slant of Sun, a National Book Award finalist; and Love, an ode to all things Philly. A writing professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Kephart is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Pew fellowship, and the Speakeasy Poetry Prize, among other honors. Composed of interlocking essays about travel, everyday miracles, and family, her new memoir is praised by Carolyn Forché as a ''shimmering'' book in which ''that most sought, most elusive treasure is revealed: what it means to be human, and aware.'' Books may be purchased through the Joseph Fox Bookshop (recorded 3/3/2021)

On February 9, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Shane McCrae and Vievee Francis. Introductions by Lannan Fellows Joshua Kim and Renny Simone. Moderated by Carolyn Forché.Shane McCrae is the author of seven books of poetry, including Sometimes I Never Suffered (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020); In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and The Animal Too Big to Kill (Persea Books, 2015), winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s Choice Award. He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.Vievee Francis was born in West Texas. She earned an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2009, and she received a Rona Jaffe Award the same year. She is the author of Forest Primeval (TriQuarterly Books, 2015), winner of the 2017 Kingsley Tufts Award; Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize; and Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University Press, 2006). The poet Adrian Matejka describes her poems as “revelations—of memory, of dust, of the cotton and marginalia strung together to make a history.” The recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem and the Kresge Foundation, Francis currently serves as an editor for Callaloo and teaches English and creative writing at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

Vinny is technically a new guest, although his voice may be familiar from a readalong episode. We talk about books strange and weird, translated, and an exciting memoir few have heard of.Download or listen via this link: Reading Envy 212: Subtly Fascinating. Subscribe to the podcast via this link: FeedburnerOr subscribe via Apple Podcasts by clicking: SubscribeOr listen through TuneIn Or listen on Google Play Or listen via StitcherOr listen through Spotify Or listen through Google Podcasts Books discussed: What You Have Heard is True: A Witness of Memoir and Resistance by Carolyn ForchéMexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-GarciaMagic for Beginners by Kelly LinkCatherine the Great and the Small by Olja Knezevic, translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać and Paula GordonThe Birds by Tarjei Vesaas; translated by Michael BarnesOther mentions:The Emigrants by W.G. SebaldClaribel AlegríaThe Country Between Us by Carolyn ForchéGet in Trouble by Kelly LinkThe Bloody Chamber by Angela CarterSt. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen RussellSwamplandia! by Karen RussellVampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen RussellWeeki Wachee State ParkMotherless Brooklyn by Jonathan LethemBlack Swan Green by David MitchellStamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. KendiLeave the World Behind by Rumaan AlamThe Changeling by Victor LavalleRelated episodes:Episode 137 - Reading Envy Readalong: The Golden NotebookEpisode 198 - Mood Reading with RobinEpisode 203 - Backlist with MarionStalk us online: Vinny is @billypar on LitsyJenny at GoodreadsJenny on TwitterJenny is @readingenvy on Instagram and Litsy All links to books are through Bookshop.org, where I am an affiliate. I wanted more money to go to the actual publishers and authors. I link to Amazon when a book is not listed with Bookshop.

On January 26, 2021 the Lannan Center presented a Crowdcast webinar featuring Javier Zamora and Natalie Scenters-Zapico. Introductions by Lannan Fellows Dennese Mae Javier and Nohora Arrieta Fernandez. Moderated by Carolyn Forché.Javier Zamora was born in La Herradura, El Salvador in 1990. His father fled El Salvador when he was a year old; and his mother when he was about to turn five. Both parents’ migrations were caused by the US-funded Salvadoran Civil War (1980-1992). In 1999, Javier migrated through Guatemala, Mexico, and eventually the Sonoran Desert. After a coyote abandoned his group in Oaxaca, Javier managed to make it to Arizona with the aid of other migrants. His first full-length collection, Unaccompanied (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), explores how immigration and the civil war have impacted his family. About Natalie Scenters-ZapicoNatalie Scenters-Zapico is a poet, educator, and activist from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, USA and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. She is the author of Lima :: Limón (Copper Canyon Press 2019) and The Verging Cities (Colorado State University 2015). Her poems have been published and anthologized in a wide range of nationally and internationally distributed journals including POETRY, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, and Best American Poetry 2015. Music: Quantum Jazz — "Orbiting A Distant Planet" — Provided by Jamendo.

John Fowles. Annie Dillard. Russell Banks. Raymond Carver. Carolyn Forché. Richard Ford, Louise Glück. Anthony Bourdain. What do all of these writers have in common? They and many more have all been published by Daniel Halpern. On today's episode of The Literary Life, Mitchell talks to publisher and poet Daniel Halpern about ushering 2021 and celebrate him and the fiftieth anniversary of his publishing imprint, Ecco Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The poet and memoirist Carolyn Forché discusses elegies, the role of the unconscious in composition, and being willing to avoid plans.

For the first ever LIVE Bible Bash, Peterson, Liam, and guests, take on the topic of Biblical Bottoms. Who is a bottom in the Bible and what does that even mean?? We talk bottoms, tops, subs, doms, power bottoms, agency, consent, and much more. Hear about Jonah, Hagar, Samson, Delilah, and others. It is a fun, informative, and insightful conversation.  This episode is very different from previous ones. In mid-December 2020 Bible Bash held the very first LIVE on-line  event. It was a chance to converse with listeners while discussing a topic--Biblical Bottoms in the Bible! As a result, we had many voices contribute to the conversation.  For the "Other Text, Peterson's husband, Glen Retief, read, The Museum of Stones, a poem by Caroline Forché. (Copyright © 2007 by Carolyn Forché. Originally published in The New Yorker) Glen is the author of the Lambda Award winning memoir, The Jack Bank.  Another difference you will find in today's show is the sound quality. Since we conducted this meeting on Zoom, the quality is not the typical Rock Candy Production standard audio. It is such a rich conversation though, we hope you will not be distracted by the click and zips that happen at some points.  Enjoy this presentation which was recorded live on December 15, 2020.  Many thanks to the guests that showed up! Thanks to those who spoke out: Autumn, Don, Sherri, and Penina. Available NOW! Check out Liam Hooper's NEW Book In Trans-Forming Proclamation, Liam Hooper tenderly explores gender and the Bible. This book actually defies genre. With rich patches of poetry, memoir, and devotional, Liam weaves together inspiring literary insights with grounded, original, and informed scholarship. Trans-Forming proclamation: A Transgender Theology of Daring Existence is new wine in a new wine skin. It is Inventive, artful, and liberating. Available on Amazon and published by Otherwise Engaged.   About US In each episode of Bible Bash Podcast, Peterson, cisgender gay Bible scholar and co-host, Liam Michael Hooper, a trans Bible scholar, take turns presenting the text. They then discuss. In addition, each episode they present another text, a non-Biblical text of note--religious or secular--that may or may not correspond to the Bible text.  Bible Bash Podcast is a project of Ministries Beyond Welcome.  Our theme song is Playbill by The Jellyrox. It is available on iTunes, Spotify, or through Rock Candy Recordings To share your questions, comments, requests for passages to be discussed, or suggestions for guests who can talk about texts, email Liam & Peterson:  ministriesbeyondwelcome@gmail.com Follow on Twitter @beyond_welcome Peterson @p2son Liam @LiMHooper Bible Bash Podcast is part of the Rock Candy Network  Bible Bash logo was designed by Diana Coe at Crone Communications Check out other Rock Candy podcasts Brown Suga Diaries Sacred Tension by Stephen Long Bubble&Squeak by Peterson Toscano Eleventylife by EleventySeven Common Creatives Magnified Pod

BILINGUAL: ENGLISH/ESPAÑOL Manuel Frau Ramos, fundador y editor de El Sol Latino, y Natalia Muñoz de Holyoke Media, conversan en español e inglés con el reconocido autor, poeta y artista profesor de inglés en la Universidad of Massachusetts-Amherst, Martín Espada. La obra más reciente de Martín Espada es de editor de una antología, la cual el es el editor, que lleva el provocativo título "What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump." Publicado a finales del año pasado (October 15, 2019). Además, algo que ha sido muy importante, es que Martín ha sido un consistente aliado de El Sol Latino, como muy pocas personas lo ha sido. Martín Espada nació en Brooklyn, Nueva York en 1957. Ha publicado casi 20 libros como poeta, editor, ensayista y traductor. La antología reúne una extraordinaria diversidad de voces. Entre los 93 poetas incluidos en este proyecto se encuentran, Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Álvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Donald Hall, Juan Felipe Herrera, Yusef Komunyakaa, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marge Piercy, Robert Pinsky, Danez Smith, Patricia Smith, Brian Turner, Ocean Vuong, Bruce Weigl, y Eleanor Wilner. Espada reciente publicó el 17 de julio de 2020 una poesía en revista digital 80grados.net dedicada al doctor en medicina y padre del movimiento independentista de Puerto Rico, Ramón Emeterio Betances. La poesía publicada en la "The Five Horses of Doctor Ramón Emeterio Betances" resalta las virtudes humanista. Esta obra esta acompañada con una introducción titulada, "Del Covid al cólera según Espada (y Betances)", escrita por el catedrático auxiliar en el Departamento de Español y Portugués de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, César A. Salgado. Puedes conocer más sobre el prolífico autor Martin Espada y su extensa obra literaria visitando su página hwww.martinespada.net. Y EN ESTOS SITIOS: Twitter: https://twitter.com/mespadapoet/status/1299361822751981569 FB: https://www.facebook.com/martinespadapoet/posts/249376860059783 IG: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEcAwvOhQGN/

On this episode of The Literary Life, Diane Roberts, Todd Gitlin, and Carolyn Forché talk with Mitchell Kaplan about Writers Against Trump, and how what started in response to a crisis of language became a full-fledged movement against fascism. To learn more about Writers Against Trump, go to https://www.writersagainsttrump.org/. Host: Mitchell Kaplan Producer: Carmen Lucas Editor: Justin Alvarez, Lit Hub Radio https://booksandbooks.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's episode, poet and activist Carolyn Forché shares insights on the power of poetry, the concepts of migration and movement during a lockdown, and reads from her new collection. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/support

Dikt: Besökaren Första rad: Han viskar på spanska att tiden runnit ut. Uppläsning: Monica Wilderoth Carolyn Forché (f. 1950) är poet, översättare, professor och människorättsaktivist. Just hennes engagemang för mänskliga rättigheter är något som slår igenom i hela hennes författarskap och hon har blivit kallad för  Den stora amerikanska samvetsrösten   Forché debuterade som 26 åring med poesisamlingen  Gathering the Tribes som hon också vann Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition för samma år. Hon har under de senaste fyra decennierna varit verksam och tongivande inom det som kallas för vittnespoesi, något som märks särskilt i hennes dikter om konflikten i El Salvador. Forchés farmor immigrerade från Slovakien som elvaåring och bodde under stora delar av Forchés uppväxt tillsammans med familjen. I hennes poesi kan man även se tydliga spår av hennes slovakiska arv som löper som en röd tråd genom dikter som t.ex. "Om att återvända till Detroit".    Forché har vunnit flera prestigfulla pris för sin poesi och arbetar idag bl.a. som professor på Georgetown University, Washington. Hon bor i Maryland tillsammans med sin man, fotografen Harry Mattison. VERKTITEL: Ur Mot Slutet utgiven på Ramús Förlag 2020 ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson MUSIK: Trad från Armenien: Ene Sarére EXEKUTÖR: Georgi Minassyan, och Haig Sarikouyoumdjian, skalmejor.

Dikt: Charmolypi Första rad: Det börjar med ett ord så tunt som Athenas ugglas skri Uppläsning: Monica Wilderoth Carolyn Forché (f. 1950) är poet, översättare, professor och människorättsaktivist. Just hennes engagemang för mänskliga rättigheter är något som slår igenom i hela hennes författarskap och hon har blivit kallad för  Den stora amerikanska samvetsrösten   Forché debuterade som 26 åring med poesisamlingen  Gathering the Tribes som hon också vann Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition för samma år. Hon har under de senaste fyra decennierna varit verksam och tongivande inom det som kallas för vittnespoesi, något som märks särskilt i hennes dikter om konflikten i El Salvador. Forchés farmor immigrerade från Slovakien som elvaåring och bodde under stora delar av Forchés uppväxt tillsammans med familjen. I hennes poesi kan man även se tydliga spår av hennes slovakiska arv som löper som en röd tråd genom dikter som t.ex. "Om att återvända till Detroit".  Forché har vunnit flera prestigfulla pris för sin poesi och arbetar idag bl.a. som professor på Georgetown University, Washington. Hon bor i Maryland tillsammans med sin man, fotografen Harry Mattison. VERKTITEL: ur Mot Slutet utgiven på Ramús Förlag 2020 ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson MUSIK: Michail Glinka: Elegi EXEKUTÖR: Stefan Schulz, bastrombon och Saomi Tomidokoro, piano

Dikt: Skrivet i Hemlighet Första rad: Bäckets svarta eld fångade deras själar - okroppslig eld. Uppläsning: Monica Wilderoth Carolyn Forché (f. 1950) är poet, översättare, professor och människorättsaktivist. Just hennes engagemang för mänskliga rättigheter är något som slår igenom i hela hennes författarskap och hon har blivit kallad för  Den stora amerikanska samvetsrösten   Forché debuterade som 26 åring med poesisamlingen  Gathering the Tribes som hon också vann Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition för samma år. Hon har under de senaste fyra decennierna varit verksam och tongivande inom det som kallas för vittnespoesi, något som märks särskilt i hennes dikter om konflikten i El Salvador. Forchés farmor immigrerade från Slovakien som elvaåring och bodde under stora delar av Forchés uppväxt tillsammans med familjen. I hennes poesi kan man även se tydliga spår av hennes slovakiska arv som löper som en röd tråd genom dikter som t.ex. "Om att återvända till Detroit".    Forché har vunnit flera prestigfulla pris för sin poesi och arbetar idag bl.a. som professor på Georgetown University, Washington. Hon bor i Maryland tillsammans med sin man, fotografen Harry Mattison. VERKTITEL: hämtade ur Mot Slutet utgiven på Ramús Förlag 2020 ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson MUSIK: Erik Satie: Gnossienne nr 3 EXEKUTÖR: Gisèle Herbert, harpa

Dikt: Den sista Dockan Första rad: Månskennet trummar på dockmakaren hydda Uppläsning: Monica Wilderoth Carolyn Forché (f. 1950) är poet, översättare, professor och människorättsaktivist. Just hennes engagemang för mänskliga rättigheter är något som slår igenom i hela hennes författarskap och hon har blivit kallad för  Den stora amerikanska samvetsrösten Forché debuterade som 26 åring med poesisamlingen  Gathering the Tribes som hon också vann Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition för samma år. Hon har under de senaste fyra decennierna varit verksam och tongivande inom det som kallas för vittnespoesi, något som märks särskilt i hennes dikter om konflikten i El Salvador. Forchés farmor immigrerade från Slovakien som elvaåring och bodde under stora delar av Forchés uppväxt tillsammans med familjen. I hennes poesi kan man även se tydliga spår av hennes slovakiska arv som löper som en röd tråd genom dikter som t.ex. "Om att återvända till Detroit".    Forché har vunnit flera prestigfulla pris för sin poesi och arbetar idag bl.a. som professor på Georgetown University, Washington. Hon bor i Maryland tillsammans med sin man, fotografen Harry Mattison. VERKTITEL: ur Mot Slutet utgiven på Ramús Förlag 2020 ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson MUSIK: Johann Sebastian Bach: Koralförspel till. Christum wir sollen loben schon EXEKUTÖR: Yin-Yang-duon, pianon

Dikt: "Morgon på ön" Första rad: Ljuset på andra sidan vattnet är staden som vaknar Uppläsning: Monica Wilderoth Carolyn Forché (f. 1950) är poet, översättare, professor och människorättsaktivist. Just hennes engagemang för mänskliga rättigheter är något som slår igenom i hela hennes författarskap och hon har blivit kallad för  Den stora amerikanska samvetsrösten Forché debuterade som 26 åring med poesisamlingen  Gathering the Tribes som hon också vann Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition för samma år. Hon har under de senaste fyra decennierna varit verksam och tongivande inom det som kallas för vittnespoesi, något som märks särskilt i hennes dikter om konflikten i El Salvador. Forchés farmor immigrerade från Slovakien som elvaåring och bodde under stora delar av Forchés uppväxt tillsammans med familjen. I hennes poesi kan man även se tydliga spår av hennes slovakiska arv som löper som en röd tråd genom dikter som t.ex. "Om att återvända till Detroit".  Forché har vunnit flera prestigfulla pris för sin poesi och arbetar idag bl.a. som professor på Georgetown University, Washington. Hon bor i Maryland tillsammans med sin man, fotografen Harry Mattison. VERKTITEL: ur Mot Slutet utgiven på Ramús Förlag 2020 ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson MUSIK: Vallåt från Mattmar EXEKUTÖR: Nils Landgren, trombon och Esbjörn Svensson, piano

Dikt: "Om att återvända till Detroit" Första rad: Över den plommonfärgade snön syns tågets blonda rökmoln Uppläsning: Monica Wilderoth Carolyn Forché (f. 1950) är poet, översättare, professor och människorättsaktivist. Just hennes engagemang för mänskliga rättigheter är något som slår igenom i hela hennes författarskap och hon har blivit kallad för Den stora amerikanska samvetsrösten   Forché debuterade som 26 åring med poesisamlingen Gathering the Tribes som hon också vann Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition för samma år. Hon har under de senaste fyra decennierna varit verksam och tongivande inom det som kallas för vittnespoesi, något som märks särskilt i hennes dikter om konflikten i El Salvador. Forchés farmor immigrerade från Slovakien som elvaåring och bodde under stora delar av Forchés uppväxt tillsammans med familjen. I hennes poesi kan man även se tydliga spår av hennes slovakiska arv som löper som en röd tråd genom dikter som t.ex. "Om att återvända till Detroit".  Forché har vunnit flera prestigfulla pris för sin poesi och arbetar idag bl.a. som professor på Georgetown University, Washington. Hon bor i Maryland tillsammans med sin man, fotografen Harry Mattison. VERKTITEL: ur Mot Slutet (Ramús Förlag, 2020) ÖVERSÄTTNING: Lars Gustaf Andersson MUSIK: Sergej Rachmaninov: Romans för cello och piano EXEKUTÖR: Steven Isserlis, cello och Thomas Ades, piano

American poet and activist, Carolyn Forché, and her poem, "The Colonel"

New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever traces the links between anti-semitism now and pogroms in the former Soviet Union and the language used to describe this form of racism. Brendan McGeever lectures at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck University of London. You can hear him discussing an exhibition at the Jewish Museum exploring racial stereotypes in a Free Thinking episode called Sebald, anti-semitism, Carolyn Forché https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050d2 New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year to turn their research into radio. Producer: Robyn Read

New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever traces the links between anti-semitism now and pogroms in the former Soviet Union and the language used to describe this form of racism. Brendan McGeever lectures at the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism at Birkbeck University of London. You can hear him discussing an exhibition at the Jewish Museum exploring racial stereotypes in a Free Thinking episode called Sebald, anti-semitism, Carolyn Forché https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00050d2 New Generation Thinkers is a scheme run by BBC Radio 3 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council to select ten early career academics each year to turn their research into radio. Producer: Robyn Read

This week we celebrate the spirit of the Ledbury Poetry Festival. With a distinctly international programme, Ledbury is one of the best-loved events in the UK literary calendar. The festival has been, like many events, sadly cancelled this year. Ian McMillan is joined by Sandeep Parmar of the Ledbury Festival Board and just a few of the poets who would have appeared at the 2020 event; Carolyn Forché, Kaveh Akbar and Juana Adcock. As part of the festival programme, Carolyn Forché was going to be in conversation with Sandeep, so here we give Sandeep a chance to ask just a few of the questions she wanted to ask. Carolyn has recently published her first collection of poetry in 17 years, 'In the Lateness of the World' (Bloodaxe). Juana Adcock discusses her translation of the Mexican poet Hubert Matiuwaa, and reads a poem from her collection 'Split' (Blue Diode), set to music by Jer Reid. Kaveh Akbar's debut collection 'Calling A Wolf A Wolf' was published to great acclaim in 2017, and here he reads work in progress. Sandeep Parmar has written the afterword to a new edition of Hope Mirrlees's ‘lost' modernist masterpiece 'Paris'. The festival has been able to move a small number of events online, including Kaveh Akbar in conversation with Danez Smith and Juana Adock and Martha Sprackland will be taking part in a Spanish Poetry Translation Duel, posted by Clare Pollard. For more details about Ledbury and to register for online events please visit https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/ Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Jessica Treen

Carolyn Forché is a poet, translator, and activist whose work has been translated into over twenty languages. Her books of poetry are Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, Gathering the Tribes, and In the Lateness of the World. Her memoir, What You Have Heard Is True, describes her time in El Salvador shortly before and during the civil war there, and was a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Carolyn is also a Co-Chair with Gloria Steinem of Hedgebrook's Creative Advisory Council. In this conversation, we talk about her incredible story, on being a witness to such pain and suffering and the myth of closure. We talk about the art of writing and the emotional aspect of publication. She tells us the greatest cure for our own pain is to have a positive effect on the world, even in some small way, and I wholeheartedly agree. Getting to speak with Carolyn was such an honor, and I’m so grateful to be able to share this conversation with you.Where to find Carolyn:Twitter InstagramGoodreadsCarolyn's Latest BooksThis episode was audio produced by Aaron Moring. Theme music is by Ilan Isakov. 

Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan. She studied at Michigan State University and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University.She is a poet, memoirist, translator, and editor, Forché's books of poetry include: In the Lateness of the World, The Angel of History, which received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; The Country Between Us, which received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award and was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; and Gathering the Tribes, which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Stanley Kunitz. Her memoir What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistancewas a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award in Nonfiction. In this episode we discuss In the Lateness of the World. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In episode 4 of season 3 of Ink Well host Jasminne and Lupe Mendez chat with poet and author Carolyn Forché about her memoir What You Have Heard Is True while she was in Houston as part of the 2019/2020 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.

On today's episode, poet and activist Carolyn Forché shares insights on the power of poetry, the concepts of migration and movement during a lockdown, and reads from her new collection. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/penamerica/support

It's the birthday of poet Carolyn Forché (1950), whose first collection won the Yale Younger Poets Award and whose latest collection came out just last month.

"Mother" written and read here by Sally Bliumis-Dunn "For the Stranger" Carolyn Forché www.sallybliumisdunn.com Sally Bliumis-Dunn teaches Modern Poetry at Manhattanville College and offers individual manuscript conferences at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Her poems appeared in New Ohio Review,On the Seawall, The Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, PLUME, Poetry London, the NYT, PBS NewsHour, upstreet, The Writer’s Almanac, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, and Ted Kooser’s  column, among others. In 2002, she was a finalist for the Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize. Her two books, Talking Underwater and Second Skin were published by Wind Publications in 2007 and 2010. Galapagos Poems published by Kattywompus Press in 2016. Her third full-length collection, Echolocation, was published by Plume editions Madhat Press in March of 2018. Shortly afterwards she was interviewed by Nin Andrews for THE BEST OF AMERICAN POETRY.   In 2019, her third book, ECHOLOCATION, Plume Editions/MadHat Press:   Long-listed for the Julie Suk Award for Best Book of Poetry in 2018. Runner-up for the Eric Hoffer Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2018 Runner-up for the Poetry By The Sea Prize for Best Book of Poetry in 2018.

S5 E19: In this episode, meet Alex Halberstadt, Esther Safran Foer, and Carolyn Forche. Each of these authors has written about their search for hidden family histories in the context of world-altering historical events. Listen in and hear what it was like for them to read their audiobooks. Plus, find out whose recording session required them to pronounce words in (at least!) 8 languages. Young Heroes of the Soviet Union by Alex Halberstadt: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/73622/young-heroes-of-the-soviet-union/ I Want You to Know We're Still Here by Esther Safran Foer: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/577021/i-want-you-to-know-were-still-here/ In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586567/in-the-lateness-of-the-world/

The editors discuss Fernando Valverde’s “The Balada of New England,” translated by Carolyn Forché, from the March 2020 issue of Poetry.

Today, the analysis of what makes a poem a poem and the definition of a classic begins to take shape through the poem "The Colonel" by Carolyn Forché. Follow us on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Special thanks to Brian Monday and Amy Popp. Thanks for listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/humans-in-motion/message

This week, I offer another round of conversations from Miami Book Fair International, in which I talk to Steve Almond about his favorite novel, Stonerby John Williams, plus I speak with poet Carolyn Forché about her memoir, All You Have Heard is True. TEXTS DICSUSSED

We discuss some of our favorite books from the past year, and some titles we're excited to get our hands on soon.  Show Notes     Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World, ed. Zahra Hankir      Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem, tr. Sinan Antoon     Palestine + 100, ed. Basma Ghalayini     Palestine as Metaphor, by Mahmoud Darwish, tr. Amira El-Zein and Carolyn Forché       Room 304 or How I Hid from My Dear Father for 35 Years by Amr Ezzat, tr. Nora Amin and Yasmine Zohdi     Souls of Edo, by Stella Gaitano, is available from Rafiki Printing and Publishing     Celestial Bodies, by Jokha al-Harthi, tr. Marilyn Booth; you can watch the clip from their CNN interview on Twitter.     Sentence to Hope: A Sa'dallah Wannous Reader by Sa'dallah Wannous, tr. Nada Saab and Robert Myers     Cairo Since 1900: An Architectural Guide by Mohamed Elshahed     The Magnificent Conman of Cairo by Adel Kamel, tr. Waleed Almusharaf     Impostures by al-Hariri, translated by Michael Cooperson ·      In Pursuit of Enayat al-Zayat by Iman Mersal

Our interview with Carolyn Forché about her amazing memoir What You Have Heard Is True about her experiences in El Salvador leading up to the 12-year civil war. It is a powerful read and gives valuable context for what is happening now in El Salvador that fuels asylum-seeking.

Our interview with Carolyn Forché about her amazing memoir What You Have Heard Is True about her experiences in El Salvador leading up to the 12-year civil war. It is a powerful read and gives valuable context for what is happening now in El Salvador that fuels asylum-seeking.

Carolyn Forché was an acclaimed twenty-seven year old poet in 1977 when a stranger persuaded her to travel to El Salvador, a country on the brink of war. What she saw there, recounted in her recent memoir, What You Have Heard Is True, changed her life and caused her to question everything she thought she knew about American foreign policy. Jen talks to Carolyn about what she saw, what she learned, and how the dynamics and dilemmas she so vividly portrays have re-emerged in Central America and U.S. immigration policy.

Writer, journalist, and educator Lauren Markham joins us on this week’s podcast to discuss the YA adaptation of The Far Away Brothers: Two Teenage Immigrants Making a Life in America. “One of the most searing books on illegal immigration since Sonia Nazario’s Enrique’s Journey” (starred review), it’s the unforgettable story of Ernesto and Raúl Flores, identical twins growing up in rural El Salvador until the threat of gang violence forces them to flee to the United States. She and Megan talk ethical storytelling, what it means to be an unaccompanied minor, and why she chose to adapt the book for young readers. Then our editors join with their reading recommendations for the week, including books by Thanhha Lai, Ibram X. Kendi, and Carolyn Forché.

Scott Aberegg of the University of Utah Hospital on the mysterious lung illness linked to vaping. Adriane Esquivel Muelbert of the University of Birmingham on the Amazon fires. Author Becky Lomax on a bucket-list for national parks. Poet and activist Carolyn Forché on poetry of witness. Michael Messina of Whooshh Innovations on the purpose of the fish tube.

Today's poem is The Boatman by Carolyn Forché.

We discuss poet Carolyn Forché's fascinating new memoir, covering her journey to El Salvador in the lead up to the horrific civil war beginning in 1979. While Ellen Pearson was at the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and caught up with artist Laia Abril, whose work tackles critical women's rights issues.  

The Farabundo Marti Liberation Front was formed when five politically different organizations joined forces to overthrow the Salvadoran military government. This was preceded by 50 years of military dictatorship supported by the U.S. government and the national oligarchy that kept a vast majority of Salvadoreans in extreme poverty and squalid working and living conditions. The dictatorship became far more brutal during the '60s and '70s when a strong social movement mobilized against economic policies and social inequalities. The military regime target workers, students, peasants, religious and humanitarian workers. Thousands were disappeared, tortured, and/or killed.   At the beginning of the 1980's a civil war started, the conflict opened several war zones in El Salvador. The war lasted for more than 12 years.  Today, we talk to professor Carolyn Forché about her experience in El Salvador in the years leading up to the war, as well as her relationship with one of the most mysterious figures associated with the war, Leonel Gómez Vides. Guest: Carolyn Forché is a renowned and distinguished poet, translator, and human rights advocate. She is a professor of poetry writing and literature at Georgetown University. She is the author of several books including her latest What You've Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. Photo by Harry Mattison -harrymattison1@gmail.com The post The Military Dictatorship in El Salvador and a Witness to the Civil War appeared first on KPFA.

The walking & photographs of WG Sebald on show in Norwich, American poet Carolyn Forché on the stranger who gave her an insider's view of politics in El Salvador whilst she was in her '20s. Plus an exhibition of money and Jewish history. Laurence Scott presents. Adam Scovell, Philippa Comber and Sean Williams discuss the influence of the German writer WG Sebald who settled in Norfolk. His novel The Rings of Saturn follows a narrator walking in Suffolk, and in part explores links between the county and German history and emigrants. Lines of Sight: W.G. Sebald’s East Anglia An exhibition celebrating the work of the author W.G. Sebald on the 75th anniversary of his birth runs at Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery 10 May 2019 – 5 January 2020 in collaboration with The University of East Anglia Adam Scovell is a film critic and author whose new novella is called Mothlight. Dr Seán Williams is a New Generation Thinker who teaches Germanic Studies at the University of Sheffield Phillippa Comber is the author of Ariadne's Thread – In Memory of W.G. Sebald and In This Trembling Shade, ten poems set to music as a song cycle. BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker Brendan McGeever is at the Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism at Birkbeck University London which was involved in developing the exhibition Jews Money Myth running at the Jewish Museum London until July 7th 2019. Carolyn Forché's Memoir is called What You Have Heard is True. A man who might be a lone wolf, a communist, a CIA operative, a sharpshooter, a revolutionary, a small coffee farmer, drives from El Salvador to invite the 27 year old Forché to visit and learn about his country and she decides to say yes. Producer: Eliane Glaser

Carolyn Forché discusses her memoir of the same title, about her time in pre-civil war El Salvador in the late 1970s.

On this episode, we're marking National Poetry month by featuring conversations with three wonderful writers. Our associate editor Matthew Sitman talks with Alice Quinn about her work and her time as poetry editor with the New Yorker magazine. Our literary editor Anthony Domestico speaks with Shane McCrae, whose collection "The Gilded Auction Block" has just been published. And Nicole-Ann Lobo, our Garvey Writing Fellow, sits down with the poet and human rights activist Carolyn Forché, to discuss her most recent book "What You Have heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness & Resistance". And make sure to stick around until the end, when our senior editor Matthew Boudway steps in with a special reading of a poem by Les Murray. 

A conversation with Carolyn Forché author of What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance.  Carolyn Forché recounts her experiences in El Salvador since the late 1970's and during the war. Carolyn Forché is a poet, editor, translator, and activist. She is the current director of the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.  He is the author of many books of poetry including  Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, and Gathering the Tribes.  In 2013, Forché received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize. What You Have Heard is True is a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others. It is the story of a woman's radical act of empathy, and her fateful encounter with an intriguing man who changes the course of her life. Photo by Harry Mattison -harrymattison1@gmail.com The post Witness and Resistance to a Brutal Civil War in El Salvador appeared first on KPFA.

S4 E17: In this episode meet Carolyn Forché, author of WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE; Eric O’Neill, author of GRAY DAY; and Evan Ratliff, author of THE MASTERMIND. These authors reveal personal truths, undercover spy stories, and dark secrets in their riveting audiobooks. Hear the truth about what it was like to record…including which author had trouble pronouncing United States over and over again. What You Have Heard Is True by Carolyn Forché: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/586566/what-you-have-heard-is-true/ Gray Day by Eric O'Neill: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/566823/gray-day/ The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff: https://www.penguinrandomhouseaudio.com/book/549566/the-mastermind/

In conversation with Beth Kephart, the award-winning author of twenty-four books, including Going Over, Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, and Flow: The Life and Times of Philadelphia's Schuylkill River. ''An unflinching witness and eloquent mourner'' (The New Yorker), Carolyn Forché is the author of the poetry collections Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, and Gathering the Tribes. For this body of work she has amassed an impressive list of honors, including fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. The Lannan Chair in Poetry at Georgetown University, Forché is also a respected translator, editor, and activist. What You Have Heard Is True tells the story of her journey with an enigmatic man into the chaos and horror of the Salvadoran Civil War. (recorded 3/19/2019)

The Museum of Stones This is your museum of stones, assembled in matchbox and tin, collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct, battlefield, threshing floor, basilica, abattoir, stones loosened by tanks in the streets of a city whose earliest map was drawn in ink on linen, schoolyard stones in […]

LYRAN 10-programsjubilerar! Samtalet kretsar kring politisk poesi. USA-poeten CAROLYN FORCHÉ läser sin berömda dikt Översten, skriven i El Salvador -78, Niklas Törnlunds dikt GAZARAEL är en poetisk reaktion på ännu ett våldsutbrott i Israel/Palestina, musikaliska ingredienser bl a Lutosławski och en israelisk systertrio med (demonstrativt nog) ett arabiskt namn: A-WA (dvs Ja!)

‘There are three urgent and indeed great problems that we face today… that is the problem of racism, the problem of poverty and the problem of war.' The words of Martin Luther King in 1967 when he visited Newcastle upon Tyne to receive an honorary degree. Words that underlie a discussion about poetry and protest which features in the festival marking the 50th anniversary of that visit. The poets Jackie Kay, Fred D'Aguiar and Major Jackson join Shahidha Bari and an audience at Newcastle University to explore the nature of protest poetry and to launch a poetry anthology celebrating the spirit of Dr King. Producer: Zahid Warley.MAJOR JACKSON Going to Meet the Man As if one day, a grand gesture of the brain, an expired subscription to silence, a decision raw as a concert of habaneros on the lips: a renewal to decency like a trash can smashing a storefront or the shattering glass face of a time-clock: where once a man forced to the ground, a woman spread-eagled against a wall, where a shot into the back of an unarmed teen: finally, a decisive spark, the engine of action, this civilian standoff: on one side, a barricade of shields, helmets, batons, and pepperspray: on the other, a cocktail of fire, all that is just and good"Going to Meet the Man" originally published by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. in Holding Company,© Major Jackson, 2010 The Mighty Stream: Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King edited by Carolyn Forché and Jackie Kay is published by Bloodaxe. Photo: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. signs the Degree Roll At Newcastle University after receiving an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree, Newcastle, England, November 14, 1967. Credit: Getty Images

What began as an offsite event for the 2017 AWP conference in Washington D.C. became a rallying point on Saturday, February 11th for over a thousand writers at Lafayette Park, across from the street from The White House. In today’s show you will hear from poets and writers Kazim Ali, Gabrielle Bellot, Melissa Febos, Carolyn Forché, Sanaz Fotouhi, Ross Gay, Luis J. Rodriguez, and Eric Sasson with minimal edits for time and program continuity. Prior to the Vigil, Citizen Lit sat down with one of the event organizers, Split This Rock executive director Sarah Browning, to talk about importance and impact of such public gatherings. Note: transcriptions for each speaker are available on Split This Rock's blog: http://blogthisrock.blogspot.com/search/label/candlelight%20vigil

An Koronel is a translation in the Bikol language of Carolyn Forché's 'The Colonel'. It is included in V.D.T. Nierva's first book 'Antisipasyon'. Read by the author.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Butler Yeats, the extraordinary Irish poet. His work reflects and sometimes opposes changes in the the poetry of his times. His life was large enough to encompass the remarkable changes Ireland underwent during his life and one of literature's most famous unrequited love affairs. In a podcast marking the 150th anniversary of his birth, the SPL invited a number of poets to read and reflect on their favourite Yeats poem. Recorded in March at St Andrews StAnza poetry festival, our podcast features Kei Miller, Ryan Van Winkle, Carolyn Forché, Jim Carruth, Alexander Hutchison, Anne Crowe and many more.

Brian Turner has become world famous for his war poetry, which was largely inspired by a year-long tour of Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. The ostensible reason for our meeting, however, was first sustained work of prose, a memoir entitled My Life as a Foreign Country, which ----more---- covered his early life, his family's long record of military service, his own tours of Iraq and his struggles to readjust to life back in America. This lyrical, unflinching book, which noticeably does away with page numbers, is his own Portrait of the Soldier-Poet as a Young Man. We met in Liverpool and talked in an office of the English Department, who were hosting a reading by Turner, Ilya Kaminsky and Carolyn Forché. In the first part of a lengthy conversation, we touched on office decor (Turner teaches creative writing at Sierra Nevada College), before pondering the vexed relationship between war and poetry. Turner recalled an early patrol outside Baghdad, where he had to decide whether to shoot a small band of men or not. He also pondered memory, violence and the language of war. His themes included:  war memoir as genresex, drugs, and boredom in the militarylove and intimacy in warcamaraderiebeauty in warthe fear and excitement of being a soldierthe intensity of working in a war zonehow post traumatic stress wrecks relationshipsviolence'How many people did you kill, Sgt Turner?''Did someone try to kill you, Sgt Turner?'Turner as occupiercomplicity and the War on Terrormemory and ghosts in Turner recalls a patrol outside Baghdad.how serving in Iraq changed his use of language as a poetTurner reads and discusses Here, BulletBrian Turner's website is: http://www.brianturner.org/bio/

Please join Melissa Studdard and Tiferet Journal on 10/21/13, from 1-1:30 PM EST, for a conversation with renowned poet and critic, Alfred Corn. Studdard and Corn will discuss Corn’s most recent collection of poetry, Tables, among other things literary and spiritual. Corn is a frequent reviewer for The New York Times Book Review and The Nation, and, in addition to poetry, has published a novel, critical essays, a prosody manual, a book of art criticism, and a Proust translation. Corn, whose poetry has been widely anthologized, has been a recipient of the Levinson Prize from Poetry magazine, an Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Academy of American Poets, and the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center at Bellagio, Italy. As well, he received the Amy Clampitt Residency in 2004. Of Corn’s poetry, Carolyn Forché, of The Lambda Book Report, says, "Corn's formal range is everywhere apparent. He even attempts sapphics in English which closely resemble what might be accomplished in the Greek. But as he understands art to be 'always more than technical virtuosity,' his poetry never merely displays his considerable poetic skills, but rather becomes a mode of thought, an inquiry into art and passion, the limits of mastery, mortality, divinity, and the possible destiny of the human soul." To buy The Tiferet Talk Interviews book, a collection from our first year, Click Here.

Recordings of the poet Carolyn Forché, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 2008, in studio, New York, NY.