Announced on: Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026
Wednesday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m., in ARTS 150 (Recital Hall)
Armen Davoudian grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Forty Pillars (Tin House, 2024), which was long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry and won the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. Davoudian has translated works from Persian into English, including Fatemeh Shams's Hopscotch (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2024). He has an MFA from Johns Hopkins University and is currently a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University. His poems and translations from Persian appear in Poetry magazine, The Hopkins Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.
Free & open to the public.
The Writer's Voice is California State University, Chico's literary arts reading series. Funded by contributions from the Department of English and the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, the Writer's Voice introduces contemporary writers to citizens of the North Valley.
For more information contact Jeanne E. Clark, Professor of English, jeclark2@csuchico.edu