Carolyn Forché

Sunday, August 3 | 3:00PM

Back Roads Readings was created to bring esteemed poets and writers, both local and regional, to read their work to people in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Readings are followed by a book signing and reception, and are held in HCA’s event tent or theater, weather dependent.

CAROLYN FORCHÉ is the author of five books of poetry, including In the Lateness of the World (all from Penguin Press), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Blue Hour (2004), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Angelof History (1995), winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award; and The Country Between Us (1982), winner of the Lamont Prize. She is the author of a memoir, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance (Penguin Press, 2019.) Her famed international anthology Against Forgetting: Twentieth- Century Poetry of Witness (W.W. Norton, 1993) was followed by the 2014 anthology, The Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001. She is Distinguished University Professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.