Event Title: Finding Poems, Assembling a Collection

Date: Sunday, January 7th 2024

Time: 4:00pm - 5:30pm Pacific time

Location: Garden Room, 1st floor of Edgehill Mansion. 75 Magnolia Avenue, San Rafael CA 94901. A live broadcast via Zoom is also available for this event. More information will be sent by email to all registrants.

What's the journey of writing a first book? Poets Armen Davoudian and Jesse Nathan discuss going from writing individual poems to compiling a full-length manuscript. They will share with us how they developed their books and saw them through to publication.

Armen Davoudian is the author of The Palace of Forty Pillars, forthcoming from Tin House Books (US) in March 2024. His poems and translations from Persian appear in Poetry magazine, the Hopkins Review, the Yale Review, and elsewhere. His chapbook, Swan Song, won the 2020 Frost Place Competition. Armen grew up in Isfahan, Iran, and is a PhD candidate in English at Stanford University.

Jesse Nathan teaches literature at UC Berkeley, and he was a founding editor of the McSweeney's Poetry Series. His poems have been published in the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, BOMB, the Kenyon Review and other magazines. He's the recipient of a fellowship from the Arts Research Center at Berkeley and another from the Kansas Arts Commission.

Registration Details

Registration is required. This creative writing event is hosted by the MFA in Creative Writing program at Dominican University as a service to the public and there is no charge for participating. Dominican University of California is a nonprofit institution. To make a donation to the MFA Scholarship Fund visit our site here.

Contact mfa@dominican.edu with any questions.

Finding Poems and Assembling a Manuscript