Who Writes the Past with Carol J. Forrester

What gets recorded, and what gets erased?
Who holds the pen, and who gets buried beneath the edits?

In this fiercely intelligent and deeply human conversation, poet and historian Carol J. Forrester joins me to talk about the silencing of women in official records—and the radical act of writing them back in. We talk about poetry, research, mythology, grief, running, and how history is not a fixed truth but a live wire.

This one goes deep, fast.

• A poet-historian who writes with both fire and footnotes

• The cost of erasing women—and the power of reimagining them

• A run through the woods that turns into a reckoning

• Why rage belongs in poetry—and how silence is shaped by safety

• The story behind Stonetongued, and the truths it tells

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Her latest collection: Stonetongued

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