Carolyn Forché | What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
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.
Other Great Podcasts
- Valerie Biden Owens | Growing Up Biden: A Memoir
- Hugh Ryan | The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
- Gene Andrew Jarrett | Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird
- Bo Seo | Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard
- Maxine Hong Kingston | The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, Other Writings
- Bill McKibben | The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened