Author Carolyn Forché talks about the world she crafted in her latest novel, _What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance_. Horrors and bravery brought to life in a lyrical memoir of empathy and intrigue. Image Source: Book Cover
**Carolyn Forché** is an American poet, teacher and activist born in Detroit, Michigan in 1950 . An articulate defender of her own aims as well as the larger goals of poetry, Forché is perhaps best-known for coining the term “poetry of witness.”