“to speak is not yet to have spoken.” In this video, Carolyn Forché reads her poem “What Comes” for the Dear Poet series, the Academy of American Poets’ educational project for National Poetry Month. Forché’s collection Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2026 (Scribner, 2026) is featured in Page One in the September/October 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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