New York State Writers Institute's video: American Book Award-winning poet Carolyn Forch moderated by Peg Boyers

Carolyn Forché won the 2021 American Book Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her new collection, In The Lateness of the World, which NPR called, “An undisputed literary event.” She spoke at the University at Albany on November 17, 2022. She is an American poet, translator, and memoirist. Her books of poetry include Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, and Gathering the Tribes. Her memoir, What You Have Heard Is True, was published by Penguin Press in 2019. In 2013, Forché received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. In 2017, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize. She previously visited the NYS Writers Institute in 2003 and 2014. Moderator Peg Boyers is executive editor of Salmagundi magazine and her poetry collections include Hard Bread (2002), Honey with Tobacco (2007), and To Forget Venice (2014). She teaches poetry workshops at Skidmore College and the New York Summer Writers Institute.