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Reading to Open 1998-99 Poetry
Series
A reading by internationally acclaimed
poet and activist Carolyn Forché will lead off the Smith
College Poetry Center's 1998-99 Poetry Series.
The reading, which is free and open
to the public, will take place on Wednesday, September 30, at
7:30 p.m. in Wright Hall Auditorium.
Forché is the author of three
collections of poetry, including Gathering the Tribes, The
Country Between Us, and most recently, The Angel of History.
She is also the editor of an anthology of 20th century poetry
of witness, Against Forgetting. She has translated the
work of Salvadoran poet and novelist Claribel Alegria, published
as Fores del Volcan, and, with William Kulik, has translated
Robert Desnos' Selected Poetry, as well as the work of
Arthur Rimbaud.
Forché wrote the text for El
Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers, and has published
articles, book reviews and essays in Granta, The New York
Times, The Washington Post, The American Poetry Review, Esquire,
Mother Jones, The Nation and others. She is the recipient
of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. She also has won the
Yale Series of Young Poets Award and the Charity Randall Citation
for the International Poetry Forum.
Book selling and signing will immediately
follow the reading. For more information, call Abe Young at (413)
585-7935.
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