Pulitzer Prize Finalist · New and Selected Poems

Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2026

“Forché’s ability to wed the ‘political’ with the ‘personal’ places her in the company of such poets as Pablo Neruda, Philip Levine, and Denise Levertov..” – Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review

From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and central figure in American poetry, a landmark collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness.

“Forché's almost incantatory way with image produces a strange tone, spell-bound but also emotionally charged.”

- The Guardian

Otherwhere spans five decades of Carolyn Forché’s work, from the poems she wrote in her early twenties in Gathering the Tribes (1976) to the elegiac In the Lateness of the World (2020). Selected by the poet herself, the collection gathers the finest work of her career alongside a new sequence, “If there is ink,” written in response to the present moment.

As Hilton Als writes in The New Yorker, Forché’s work aims “to capture that bigness, line by line.”

Appearances

Join Carolyn Forché on the Road

This fall, Carolyn Forché will appear at bookstores and universities across the country in celebration of Otherwhere. Catch a reading near you, including a conversation with Maureen Corrigan at Politics and Prose in Washington, DC.

Date	Venue
Sep 8	Princeton Public Library 65 Witherspoon St, Princeton, NJ 08542
Sep 10	Greenlight Bookstore 686 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Sep 11	Porter Square Books 1815 Massachusetts Ave, Suite 118-119, Cambridge, MA 02140
Sep 13, 3:00 PM	Politics and Prose 5015 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008 In conversation with Maureen Corrigan — Learn More
Sep 15, 6:30 PM	Literati Bookstore 124 E Washington St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Sep 22	Georgetown University