September 8, 2026 — From a Pulitzer Prize finalist comes a collection of new and selected poems chronicling five decades of work marked by moral courage, radical empathy, and unflinching witness: Carolyn Forché‘s (CRF 2012) Otherwhere: New and Selected Poems, 1976–2026 (Scribner) is out today!
Selected by Carolyn herself, Otherwhere brings together poems from across her career, from her 1976 debut Gathering the Tribes through The Country Between Us, The Angel of History, Blue Hour, and In the Lateness of the World. The collection also includes If there is ink, a new group of poems responding to the present moment and its ongoing emergencies.
Across the collection, Carolyn’s poetry is marked by moral attention, empathy, and a sustained engagement with history, displacement, violence, and human responsibility. Otherwhere offers a comprehensive view of a body of work that has made a lasting contribution to American poetry.
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