Award-winning poet Carolyn Forché will deliver the keynote address at American River College’s SummerWords 2015 writing colloquium. Forché is a professor at Georgetown University and human rights activist. We’ll talk to her about what it means to be an American poet and the value of being a "poet of witness."

LINKS:

• Washington City Paper: Local Poet Carolyn Forché on Why American Poetry Still Matters and How 9/11 Changed It
• The New Yorker: Poetry in Extremis
• Under A Warm Green Linden: Interview with Carolyn Forché
• Oyster Boy Review: Review of The Blue Hour
• Lannan Foundation: Carolyn Forché with James Longenbach
• Blue Flower Arts