Bonus Extended Segment: Poet and memoirist Carolyn Forche with Garvey writing fellow Nicole-Ann Lobo

The poet Carolyn Forche is also an editor, translator and human-rights activist. Her most recent book is What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance. Nicole-Ann Lobo, the Commonweal Garvey Writing Fellow, recently spoke with Carolyn about the memoir, about her experiences during the war in El Salvador, and about what it was like to meet, and receive Communion from, St. Oscar Romero. You can read Nicole-Ann and Carolyn's full interview here.