She has won numerous awards for national and international reporting and is the author of Soldier, a biography of Colin Powell. She has been assistant managing editor for national news, national editor and foreign editor.
foreign policy, and the intelligence community. In more than three decades at the paper, she has served as bureau chief in Latin America and London and as correspondent covering the White House, U.S. Karen DeYoung is associate editor and senior national security correspondent for the Washington Post. She lives in Maryland with her husband, photographer Harry Mattison. She is a University Professor at Georgetown University. In 2017, she became one of the first two poets to receive the Windham-Campbell Prize. In 2013, Forché received the Academy of American Poets Fellowship given for distinguished poetic achievement. Her memoir, What You Have Heard is True, was published by Penguin Press in 2019. Her books of poetry are Blue Hour, The Angel of History, The Country Between Us, and Gathering the Tribes. Carolyn ForchéĬarolyn Forché is an American poet, translator, and memoirist. She will moderate a discussion with Forché, and discuss how this history colors the present crisis in Central America. Karen DeYoung was a correspondent in El Salvador at the same time. Many of the dynamics and dilemmas she so vividly portrays have re-emerged in Central America and U.S.
If they are not, it’s a brilliant satire.
If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book. Carolyn Forché was an acclaimed twenty-seven year old poet in 1977 when a stranger persuaded her to travel to El Salvador, a country on the brink of war. What she saw there, recounted in her recent memoir, What You Have Heard is True, changed her life and caused her to question everything she thought she knew about American foreign policy. To ask why this is so would be a far more useful project.
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