Carolyn Forché - February 15, 2007

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UA Poetry Center

Reading Series
Location
Modern Languages Auditorium
Carolyn Forché

Carolyn Forché reads from her collection Blue Hour (2003) as well as unpublished and uncollected work. This reading includes a performance of excerpts from her famous long abecedarian, "On Earth."

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Welcome
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by Frances Sjoberg

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Introduction
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by Renee Angle

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Opening Remarks
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Epigraph and excerpt from "On Earth"
Citation

Forché, Carolyn. Blue Hour. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

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Excerpt from "On Earth"
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Forché, Carolyn. Blue Hour. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

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Excerpt from "On Earth"
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Forché, Carolyn. Blue Hour. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

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"Writing Kept Hidden"
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Forché, Carolyn. Blue Hour. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

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"Prayer"
Citation

Forché, Carolyn. Blue Hour. New York: HarperCollins, 2003.

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"In the Cinema of the Place des Martyrs"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Forché, Carolyn. "In the Cinema of the Place des Martyrs." The Vilenica Almanac. 2007: 373. Print.

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"From a notebook, 1984"
Description

Unpublished.

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"The Lost Suitcase"
Citation

Forché, Carolyn. "The Lost Suitcase." The New Yorker. 82:30 (25 September 2006): 124. Print.

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"Death Bed"
Citation

Forché, Carolyn. "Death Bed." Salmagundi. 148/149 (Fall 2005/Winter 2006): 199. Print.

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"Elegy for an Unknown Poet"
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Differs from published version.

Citation

Forché, Carolyn. "Elegy for an Unknown Poet." Salmagundi. 146/147 (Spring/Summer 2005): 125. Print.

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"Fisherman"
Citation

Forché, Carolyn. "Fisherman." Salmagundi. 148/149 (Fall 2005/Winter 2006): 201. Print.

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"The History of Invention"
Description

Unpublished.

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"The Museum of Stones"
Description

Differs slightly from published version.

Citation

Forché, Carolyn. "The Museum of Stones." The New Yorker. 83:5 (26 March 2007): 49. Print.

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"Litany in Krakow"
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Unpublished.

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"I brought back from despair a basket so small..."
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Unpublished.

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"What Comes"
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Unpublished.

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Carolyn Forché
Photographer
Christine Krikliwy
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