[Reader-list] Feb 8/Delhi: Double Feature: Carolyn Forche & Joy Harjo

[Monica Mody]

Open Baithak presents a reading by two of the most exciting contemporary
American poets:

CAROLYN FORCHE & JOY HARJO

Feb 8, 2008, Friday @ 7 pm

Amphitheatre, Gate # 2, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003


Co-sponsors: The American Center & India Habitat Centre

CAROLYN FORCHE is the author of "Blue Hour"; "The Angel of History", which
received the Los Angeles Times Book Award; "The Country Between Us", which
received the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and
was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets; and
"Gathering the Tribes", which was selected for the Yale Series of Younger
Poets. She has edited an anthology on poetry of witness and has translated
many poets. Over the years Forche's quest to understand the individual's
struggle with social upheaval and political turmoil has taken her from El
Salvador to the occupied West Bank, Lebanon, and South Africa. Her trip is
being funded by the NEA.

JOY HARJO's books of poetry include "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky", which
received the Oklahoma Book Arts Award; "In Mad Love and War", which received
an American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, and others.
She also performs her poetry and plays saxophone with her band, Joy Harjo
and the Arrow Dynamics Band. Her many honors include The American Indian
Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award, the Josephine Miles Poetry
Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the William Carlos
Williams Award, and fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the
Witter BynnerFoundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives
in Hawaii. Her trip is being funded by the NEA.


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