She has twice won a Minnesota Book Award for poetry. Her writing has won fellowships and awards from the National Poetry Series, Native Arts and Cultures Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, Bush Foundation, Loft Literary Center, First People’s Fund, and other honors. Erdrich is the author of seven collections of poetry. Erdrich Craft Talk recorded on February 17, 2022 Erdrich Reading and Conversation recorded on February 15, 2022
In 1998 in Stockholm, she received the Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award for her human rights advocacy and the preservation of memory and culture. Her famed international anthology, Against Forgetting, has been praised by Nelson Mandela as "itself a blow against tyranny, against prejudice, against injustice," and is followed by the 2014 anthology The Poetry of Witness. She has translated Mahmoud Darwish, Claribel Alegria, and Robert Desnos. She is also the author of the memoir What You Have Heard is True (Penguin Random House, 2019), a devastating, lyrical, and visionary memoir about a young woman's brave choice to engage with horror in order to help others, which was nominated for the 2019 National Book Awards. Her most recent collection is In the Lateness of the World. Forché's first volume, Gathering the Tribes, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, was followed by The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, and Blue Hour. Renowned as a "poet of witness, " Carolyn Forché is the author of five books of poetry. View Recording Carolyn Forché Craft Talk recorded on April 7, 2022
Carolyn Forché Reading and Conversation recorded on April 5, 2022
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