Carolyn Forché Reads Mahmoud Darwish

Carolyn Forché joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “The Owl’s Night (newyorker.com/magazine/2005/11/14/the-owls-night),” by Mahmoud Darwish, translated by Jeffrey Sacks, and her own poem “The Museum of Stones (newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/26/the-museum-o…).” A poet, translator, editor, and activist, Forché is the author of six poetry collections—including, most recently, “Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026 (amazon.com/dp/1668218240)”—and a memoir, “What You Have Heard Is True (amazon.com/dp/0525560394).” She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship for distinguished literary achievement.

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