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Carolyn Louise Forche

Born: 04/28/1950 Detroit, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Parents: Michael Joseph Sidlowsky and Louise Nada Blackford
Spouse: Harry E. Mattison
Children: Sean-Christophe Madison
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Website: http://www.carolynforche.com/

Writings

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, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent	1974

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