European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Carmen Bugan

The Poetry Reading Series at Boston University presents Romanian poet Carmen Bugan in conversation with Christopher Ricks.

Carmen Bugan was born in 1970 in Romania and has since lived in the US, Ireland, England, and France. She is the author of three collections of poems: Crossing the Carpathians (Oxford Poets/Carcanet), The House of Straw (Shearsman), and Releasing the Porcelain Birds (Shearsman); as well as the memoir Burying the Typewriter and the critical study ‘Séamus Heaney and East European Poetry in Translation: Poetics of Exile’. Her essays, reviews, and poems appear in publications such as PEN, the TLS, Modern Poetry in Translation, PN Review, and the BBC Magazine. Carmen teaches at the Gotham Writers Workshop in NYC and lives in Long Island, NY.

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Europe. Free and open to the public. Reception and book-signing to follow.