BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTEND:20191002T000000Z UID: 6807165bb1956 DTSTAMP:20250421T230859Z LOCATION:Denkmann Memorial Building DESCRIPTION:The Department of English will host award-winning poet\, activist\, translator and memoirist Carolyn Forch¨¦ as this year¡¯s first author in the River Readings series. Forch¨¦ will read from her 2019 memoir\, "What You Have Heard Is True."\n\nCarolyn Forch¨¦¡¯s first book of poems\, "Gathering the Tribes\," won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Her 1993 international anthology "Against Forgetting" was praised by Nelson Mandela as ¡°itself a blow against tyranny\, against prejudice\, against injustice.¡±\n\nA reception will follow the reading. \;\n \;\n URL;VALUE=URI:/about-us/events/2019/river-readings-poet-carolyn-forche SUMMARY:River Readings: Poet Carolyn Forch¨¦ DTSTART:20191002T000000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR