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