Chapman University Presidential Fellow and poet Carolyn Forché will draw from her own work and from the literature of soldiers to examine how war craters our memory and changes our language in brutal ways.

About the Speaker: Carolyn Forché is Lannan Visiting Professor of Poetry and Professor of English at Georgetown University. Her first volume, 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. She has translated Mahmoud Darwish, Claribel Alegria, and Robert Desnos. Her famed international anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as “itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice,” and is followed by the 2014 anthology The Poetry of Witness. 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. Her memoir is forthcoming.

Free and open to the public.

Refreshments will be served.

This event is produced in partnership with the The Department of English, Tabula Poetica: The Center for Poetry, the Leatherby Libraries, and the Office of the President.