TWA Poets: Carolyn Forché

Born in 1859

It’s the birthday of poet Carolyn Forché, born in Detroit (1950). She grew up in a rural Catholic area. She lived in the same house for almost all of her childhood, with her parents and Czech grandmother, and attended school with the same 82 students for 12 years. Her family was devout, and they lived by the liturgical calendar. But once she left home f…