Carolyn Forché with Kevin Young

Carolyn Forché presents Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026

In conversation with Kevin Young

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist, and a central figure in American poetry, Carolyn Forché presents Otherwhere, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness. Throughout these poems of unparalleled conviction, there resounds the “sense of responsibility: to the fullness of lives unnecessarily [bound]; to poetry and its insistence on meaning; to attention and action, no matter the cost” (World Literature Today) that has defined Forché’s work—an inimitable, monumental contribution to American letters. Forché reads and discusses her work with acclaimed poet Kevin Young (Night Watch), before an audience Q&A and signing!