SummerWords Keynote Speaker Carolyn Forché Friday, May 29, 2015 | Sacramento, CA Listen / download audio Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Don J. Usner / http://blueflowerarts.com/ Award-winning poet Carolyn Forché will deliver the keynote address at American River College’s SummerWords 2015 writing colloquium. Forché is a professor at Georgetown University and human rights activist. We’ll talk to her about what it means to be an American poet and the value of being a "poet of witness." LINKS: Washington City Paper: Local Poet Carolyn Forché on Why American Poetry Still Matters and How 9/11 Changed It The New Yorker: Poetry in Extremis Under A Warm Green Linden: Interview with Carolyn Forché Oyster Boy Review: Review of The Blue Hour Lannan Foundation: Carolyn Forché with James Longenbach Blue Flower Arts
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