EVENTS and NEWS
Here are some events to help launch Lilies from America–more details closer to the time. Please scroll down for the upcoming events.
New Masterclass at the Poetry School in London, Spring 2026
Book Launch, September 26, 6pm at The Setauket Neighborhood House
Poetry Reading, October 2, 6pm at Boston University
Plenary panel talk, “Resettling in the English Language”, October 4, 10:30am, at the ALCSW Conference,
Book Launch, October 10, 7pm at Barnes and Noble, Lake Grove, NY
Book Launch, November 4, 6:30pm at Waterstones Oxford
Poetry Reading, November 6, 6pm, Pembroke College, Oxford
Poetry Reading, Panel, and Workshop, November 8-10 at the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
Poetry Workshop,”From Inspiration to Publication,” November 23, 2-4pm the Emma Clark Library
Poetry Reading, December 14, 1:30pm at the Oceanside Library, NY
Interview, January 15, 6pm on Living Writers, WCBN Ann Arbor
Poetry Reading and book signing, January 16, 2020 at 7pm at the Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor
Lecture, “Autobiography and Government Surveillance Archives”, March 4, 2020 New York University, NYC
Poetry Reading and book signing, Nassau Community College, Long Island, NY ,April 20, 9:30 am via Zoom
Poetry Reading and book signing, Molloy College, Long Island, NY, April 5, 2020, 2:30 pm
Panelist and Poetry Faculty at the Geneva Writers Conference, Switzerland, September 21-25, 2020
Into the Mind of the Oppressor: a talk on writing a novel-in-verse at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, Oxford University, UK, 27 October, 2020
Public Lecture, University College London, November 18, 2020
Voicing Public Emotion: Workshop on Poetry and Politics, Poetry School, London, November 14, 2020
Launching my book, Lilies from America, at Poetry in Aldeburgh November 8-10, 2019
What a fabulous way to launch my book of poems, Lilies from America, in England this November! Such a lovely line up of poets, editors, and performers at this year’s Poetry in Albeburgh; I very much look forward to the events.
Carmen Bugan and the Language of Freedom–University of Michigan, Residential College Podcast
I am delighted to share this record of my visit to the University of Michigan as the 2018 Helen DeRoy Professor in Honors. Please follow this link to listen to the podcast.
Lilies from America: New and Selected Poems
Lilies from America wins a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation
I am very happy to announce that my forthcoming New and Selected Poems has received praise from the Poetry Book Society.
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Today’s thought on writing, from a lecture on Artistic Distance and the Language of Oppression, which I gave at Oxford University and which is available on this podcast:
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I am happy to share this piece on Meena Alexander’s poetry , which was just published in Harvard Review.
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Among the many blessings of poetry, this:
from “Self-Protection” by D.H. Lawrence
A nightingale singing at the top of his voice
Is neither hiding himself, nor preserving himself nor propagating his species;
He is giving himself away in every sense of the word;
And obviously, it is the culminating point of his existence.
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I am absolutely delighted to announce that my new and selected poems will be published this September with the wonderful publisher, Shearsman Books. The book represents the work I have done in the past fifteen years of publication, though, more accurately, it shows the writing I have done in the past 25 years of writing poetry in English.
Dr. Carmen Bugan--Poet, Scholar, Teacher 