Reading: Carolyn Forché

Presenter Information

Carolyn Forché

Location

Memorial Union Ballroom

Event Website

http://www.undwritersconference.org

Start Date

23-3-1983 3:00 PM

End Date

23-3-1983 4:00 PM

Description

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 23, 1983, as part of the 14th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Centennial Year,” Carolyn Forché reads a selection of poems from The Country Between Us. Forché reads “As Children Together,” “Joseph,” “San Onofre, California,” “The Visitor,” “Ourselves or Nothing,” “For the Stranger,” and “Endurance.” Forché also responds to audience questions about her work in El Salvador, current political tensions between Nicaragua and North America over the transaction of Soviet MIG fighter planes, and the internal structure of the Salvadoran military.

Introduced by Dr. Sandra Donaldson, Department of English.

Note: There are intermittent breaks in the recording.

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Reading: Carolyn Forché

Memorial Union Ballroom

In this audiovisual recording from Wednesday, March 23, 1983, as part of the 14th Annual UND Writers Conference: “The Centennial Year,” Carolyn Forché reads a selection of poems from The Country Between Us. Forché reads “As Children Together,” “Joseph,” “San Onofre, California,” “The Visitor,” “Ourselves or Nothing,” “For the Stranger,” and “Endurance.” Forché also responds to audience questions about her work in El Salvador, current political tensions between Nicaragua and North America over the transaction of Soviet MIG fighter planes, and the internal structure of the Salvadoran military.

Introduced by Dr. Sandra Donaldson, Department of English.

Note: There are intermittent breaks in the recording.

https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1983/day2/2