Reading to Open 1998-99 Poetry Series

A reading by internationally acclaimed poet and activist Carolyn Forché will lead off the Smith College Poetry Center's 1998-99 Poetry Series.

The reading, which is free and open to the public, will take place on Wednesday, September 30, at 7:30 p.m. in Wright Hall Auditorium.

Forché is the author of three collections of poetry, including Gathering the Tribes, The Country Between Us, and most recently, The Angel of History. She is also the editor of an anthology of 20th century poetry of witness, Against Forgetting. She has translated the work of Salvadoran poet and novelist Claribel Alegria, published as Fores del Volcan, and, with William Kulik, has translated Robert Desnos' Selected Poetry, as well as the work of Arthur Rimbaud.

Forché wrote the text for El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers, and has published articles, book reviews and essays in Granta, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Poetry Review, Esquire, Mother Jones, The Nation and others. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lannan Foundation. She also has won the Yale Series of Young Poets Award and the Charity Randall Citation for the International Poetry Forum.

Book selling and signing will immediately follow the reading. For more information, call Abe Young at (413) 585-7935.