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Carolyn Louise Forche

Born: 04/28/1950   Detroit , MI
Parents: Michael Joseph Sidlowsky and Louise Nada Blackford
Spouse: Harry E. Mattison
Children: Sean-Christophe Madison
Address(es):
Permanent :
MD  
Contact Information:
Website : http://www.carolynforche.com/

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500 - 2001
- An anthology edited by Carolyn Forche and Duncan Wu. 		Poetry Adult New York: W W Norton and Company 2014
Blue Hour Poetry Adult New York: HarperCollins 2003
Sorrow
- Translator 		Poetry Adult Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press 1999
The Angel of History Poetry Adult New York: HarperCollins 1994
El Salvador: work of thirty photographers
- She wrote the text. 		Non Fiction Adult New York: Writers and Readers Cooperative 1983
Flowers from the Volcano
- Translator 		Poetry Adult Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press 1983
The Country Between Us Poetry Adult New York: Harper and Row 1981
The Colonel Fiction Adult St. Paul, MN: Bieler Press 1981 -1982
Gathering The Tribes
- Won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award from the Yale University Press 		Poetry Adult New Haven : Yale University Press 1976
Various poems
- Published in journals such as The New Yorker, Antaeus, Red Cedar Review and others 		Poetry Adult

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Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Awards:

Name Date
Academy of American Poets Fellowship
- This award is given for distinguished poetic achievement. 		2013
Robert Creeley Award 2006
National Book Critics Circle Award
- For Blue Hour 		2003
Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry
- For The Angel of History 		1994
Charity Randall Citation from International Poetry Forum 1992
Honorary Doctor of Letters (H.D.L.): Russell Sage College, Troy, New York 1985
Lamont Poetry Selection Award 1981
Poetry Society of America Alice Fay di Castagnola Award 1981
Emily Clark Balch Prize, Virginia Quarterly Review 1979
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship 1978
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1977 -1984
Bread Loaf Writers Conference Tennessee Williams Fellowship 1976
Yale Series of Younger Poets Award
- For Gathering the Tribes 		1975
Chicago Review Award 1975
Devine Memorial Prize 1975

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Writers Directory, 22nd ed. 2006
Contemporary Poets, 7th ed. 2001
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Contemporary Authors
- Contemporary Authors, volume(s) 117 Contemporary Authors - Brief Entry, volume(s) 109 Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, volume(s) 50, 74, 138 		1986 -2005
Contemporary Literary Criticism, volume(s) 25, 83, 86 1983 -1995
Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume(s) 5, 193
- 5: American Poets Since World War II, (1980) 193: American Poets Since World War II, Sixth Series, (1998) 		1980 -1998

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A) Bowling Green State University Bowling Green , OH 1975
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) : International Relations and Creative Writing Michigan State University East Lansing , MI 1972

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Director of Lannon Center for Poetry Georgetown University Washington DC 2012
Professor Skidmore College Saratoga Springs 2006
Professor George Mason University Fairfax 1994
Associate professor Columbia University New York 1984 -1985
Poetry Editor New Virginia Review 1981
Assistant professor, Associate professor University of Arkansas Fayetteville 1980 -1981
Visiting Lecturer
-  (1979, 1982-1983) 		University of Virginia Charlottesville 1979
Visiting Lecturer, assistant professor
-  (1974, 1976-1978) 		Michigan State University East Lansing , MI 1974

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