[Brooklyn, NY]

Make Room: A New Voices Salon with Armen Davoudian, Laura Henriksen & Jed Munson
May 17, 2024, 12:00 am
at Poetry Society of America

Make Room: A New Voices Salon with Armen Davoudian, Laura Henriksen & Jed Munson, Friday, 5/17 7:00PM, Brooklyn, New York (RSVP)

Armen Davoudian is the author of the poetry collection The Palace of Forty Pillars (Tin House) and the translator, from Persian, of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams (Ugly Duckling Presse). He grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford Univeristy.

Laura Henriksen’s first book is Laura’s Desires, recently out from Nightboat Books. Her writing can be found in LitHub, Newest York, and other places. She lives in Sunset Park, Lenapehoking, teaches writing at Pratt Institute, and works as the Program Director of The Poetry Project.

Jed Munson is the author of the essay collection Commentary on the Birds (Rescue Press, 2023), as well as four chapbooks of poetry: Portrait with Parkinson’s (Oxeye Press, 2023), Minesweeper (New Michigan Press/DIAGRAM, 2023), Silts (above/ground press, 2022), and Newsflash Under Fire, Over the Shoulder (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2021). His work has appeared in journals including Bat City Review, Conjunctions, Image, and Poetry Northwest.