![]() ![]() She had left El Salvador at his insistence, for her safety, even as she had insisted, to no avail, that he do the same. Archbishop Óscar Romero had been assassinated on March 24, just days after she had conducted his last interview. The most famous, "The Colonel," provides the title of her memoir of her time in Central America, intermittently from January, 1977, to March, 1980. ![]() The most arresting poems were about El Salvador, from where she had just returned. None of us could have known what we would hear that evening. Two were already well established, but our third poet, Carolyn Forché, had only recently received a prestigious prize for a first book of poems. My writing group received a grant to host three nationally known poets. But in the spring of 1980, I heard a poetry reading that made things happen in my life. "Poetry makes nothing happen." So wrote W. ![]()
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