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Against Forgetting: 20th Century Poetry of Witness

Against Forgetting: 20th Century Poetry of Witness

Award winning poet Carolyn Forché spent 13 years compiling Against Forgetting: 20th Century Poetry of Witness. It is an exhaustive and illuminating work of breadth, beauty, wisdom and tragedy. This work demonstrates our belief in the role of culture in healing atrocities. Against Forgetting: 20th Century Poetry of Witness was praised by Nelson Mandela as "itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice." In our 2 part interview Forché explains how she came to create this work and talks about her own experiences as a writer and activist. View Part 2 of our video interview here. FULL TRANSCRIPTION OF JANE WELLS’ INTERVIEW WITH CAROLYN FORCHÉ, WASHING... More

New Year Baby

New Year Baby

Socheata Poeuv is both the director and subject of New Year Baby. She is also Founder and Executive director of Khmer Legacies, a 501c3 non-profit organization that documents stories of the Cambodian genocide one survivor at a time by having the younger generation interview the older generation.  Jane Wells and Nicki Pombier Berger of 3 Generations recently interviewed Socheata about her film, her foundation and cultural regeneration: 3G: We’re very excited to start the regeneration element of 3 Generations’ work with your film. It was so wo... More

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