Armen Davoudian
Armen Davoudian’s poems and translations from Persian appear or are forthcoming in AGNI, Narrative, the Sewanee Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. His work has been supported by scholarships from Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He grew up in Isfahan, Iran and is currently pursuing a PhD in English at Stanford University.
Reading List
Passage
A boy shoulders his way through the thighs of men (musk of fenugreek) and shucks off his book bag. Because he is a boy, he rides the sluggish bus with purpose, knuckles tight around the tall steel stanchion. Out the window, a patch of magenta screeches by, tulips loud as the color of fresh-dyed chicks. […]
Something There Is That Doesn’t Love
Students in the Middlebury Language Schools in Vermont take an oath to speak, for the duration of the course, only in the language they are there to study. We’re in Deutsche camp, which is a tasteless joke my friend with the undercut trolls out of history like a pet goldfish pulled out of its […]