Can’t wait to share this new book with y’all. I’ve never felt freer or had more fun writing than I have working on these poems. Thanks as ever to Peter Conners and the fabulous folks at BOA Editions for believing in me and this work.

Good morning Baltimore!

come for the rhymes stay for the grumpy truths

No April Fool’s joke: TOC sneak peek for our spring issue, THR 17.2. Subscribe today, and get excited! hopkinsreview.com/subscribe

Baltimore tonight! I’ll be reading with Alexandra Tanner Leslie Sainz AD Come on out!

would love to see you #bayarea we’re gonna dreamspeak some poems!

just fucking read and write

Eid Mubarak! my offering to you today: I recommend seven new & forthcoming poetry collections that transform the personal into portal for Electric Literature ☄️ featuring Saba Keramati Lena Khalaf Tuffaha لينا خلف تفاحة Joshua Garcia @rootwards @tracyfuad & more— electricliterature.com/7-poetry-colle…

#bayarea this is Saturday at 7 it’s free come thru!

I’m absolutely thrilled by this review in PUBLISHERS WEEKLY of my forthcoming poetry collection COACHELLA ELEGY!!! It’s available July 1, 2024 and you can preorder it using the links in my bio.

"The Palace of Forty Pillars" from AD is a treat - echoes of Bishop and Merrill, but a new distinctive voice all his own:

Join us on May 4 for our #LiteraryLights event feat. AD, author of Publishers Weekly & The Rumpus Most Anticipated Poetry Book of 2024, The Palace of Forty Pillars. Davoudian will be joined by Prof. Anahid Nersessian. Learn more & register 🔗 bit.ly/LL24-AD

Students of Gaza extend their appreciation to American students for their solidarity during the war. They express profound thanks to over 120 university campuses across the United States, as well as numerous demonstrations in Europe, for standing in solidarity with their cause.

literally crying in the club (my office)

A treat to see my book reviewed so beautifully The Palace of Forty Pillars is Book of the Month in The Telegraph

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Tobias Carroll Archipelago Books Aneesa Abbas Higgins Open Letter Books The poetry collection “Hopscotch” by Fatemeh Shahrzad Shams (tr. AD , @uglyducklingprs/Falschrum) “encompass(es) historical legacies and the experience of living in contemporary Berlin” in “precisely composed verse.” buff.ly/3wNdXLk

This week on #HarrietBooks, Janani Ambikapathy reviews HOPSCOTCH by Fatemeh Shams, translated by Armen Davoudian, and published by Ugly Duckling Presse (UGLY DUCKLING PRESSE). Read the review: bit.ly/4cm7upA