Families looking for “Disappeared” relatives in The Book of the Missing at the Human Rights Commission Office in San Salvador_early 1980s_photograph © Eli Reed . Carolyn Forché (born 1950, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.) “The Colonel” . What you have heard is true. I was in his house. His wife carried a tray of coffee and sugar. His … Continue reading Poems for Remembrance Day: El Salvador’s Civil War