Carolyn Forché's first poetry collection, Gathering The Tribes (Yale University Press, 1976), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award from the Yale University Press. Forché has held three fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1992 she received a Lannan Foundation Literary Award "as a writer of excellence, whose work promotes a truer understanding of contemporary life." That same year, she received, with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, the Charity Randall Citation from the International Poetry Forum. Her anthology, Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness, a collection of poetry in English and in translation by poets who endured conditions of social, historical and political extremity during the 20th century was published by W.W. Norton & Co. in 1993. In March, 1994, her third book of poetry, The Angel of History (HarperCollins, Publishers), received The Los Angeles Times Book Award. Recently, she was chosen to receive The Edita and Ira Morris Hiroshima Foundation for Peace and Culture Award for 1998, which was presented to her in Stockholm in January, 1998, in recognition of her work on behalf of human rights and the preservation of memory and culture.