Lannan Readings & Conversations

Mahmoud Darwish

with Carolyn Forché
Sunday April 28 2002

Mahmoud Darwish – in Arabic, April 28, 2002
Carolyn Forché – in English, April 28, 2002
Naomi Shihab Nye – in English, April 28, 2002
Swarthmore students Selma Hassan and Amalie Dublon, April 28, 2002

Mahmoud Darwish is one of the most acclaimed poets in the Arab world. His twenty books of poetry include The Adam of Two Edens, Mural, A Bed of Stranger, Why Have You Left the Horse Alone, Diwan, and Eleven Planets.

Mahmoud Darwish Bio and Cross Links


No one has worked harder to bring the brutal extremities of political life in the 20th century into the orbit of American poetry than Carolyn Forché, poet, translator, anthologist, and human rights activist. Her 1982 volume, The Country Between Us, commemorates two years spent working with human rights advocates in El Salvador; it contains some of the most powerful poems of political violence and political commitment ever written in the United States.

Carolyn Forché Bio and Cross Links