. . . Composing poems and writing stories is
a meditative, spiritual act of resistance. It requires
a capacity to sustain contemplation, to be attentive
to all that is about us, and to hold within ourselves
an awareness that we are here, in our living moment,
between two unknown realms—
before our births and after our deaths. . . .
~ 'Poet of Witness' Carolyn Forche
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Quoted from Carolyn Forche, "Not Persuasion, But Transport: The Poetry of Witness", 2013 Blaney Lecture, in American Poets, Spring-Summer 2014
Carolyn Forche at Academy of American Poets, Blue Flower Arts, Modern American Poetry, Poetry Foundation
Caroyn Forche's Blaney Lecture (Video)
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