# Event Details - **Event Name**: Robin Becker, Armen Davoudian, Ben Gucciardi - **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 21 Jun, 2026 at 03:00 pm - **Event Description**: Poetry Flash presents a Father’s Day poetry reading. For more information, see poetryflash.org: ROBIN BECKER’s new book is “Midsummer Count: New and Selected Poems,” featuring selections from each of her previously published books and nearly thirty new poems. Sandra Yannone says, “For decades, and certainly since her Lambda Literary Award-winning ‘All-American Girl,’ Robin Becker has inspired and instructed us on how to be the portrait of the artist as a Jewish woman, a lesbian, a sister, a daughter, a lover, a traveler, and a teacher of the craft of poetry. With grace and grit, the poems that span her career now reside together in one volume to magnify their mastery and thematic conversations over time.” Becker is the author of eight previous books of poetry, including “The Black Bear Inside Me, Tiger Heron, Domain of Perfect Affection, The Horse Fair, All-American Girl,” and “Giacometti’s Dog,” all published in the Pitt Poetry Series. Recent poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review and The New Yorker. ARMEN DAVOUDIAN’s debut collection is “The Palace of Forty Pillars,” winner of the Northern/ California Book Award in Poetry 2025 and long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He has also translated works from Persian into English, including Fatemeh Shams's “Hopscotch”; his chapbook, “Swan Song,” won the Frost Place Competition. Mary Jo Salter says, “’The Palace of Forty Pillars’ heralds a new but already accomplished voice in American poetry, and indeed of an evolving America. Davoudian, born in Iran and Armenian by heritage, is a young master of the English language who brings to mind the high-culture wit of James Merrill and the affecting reticence of Elizabeth Bishop. Davoudian is also irrepressibly contemporary, as in ‘Coming out of the Shower,’ which shows him negotiating his identity as a gay man in a family whose traditions involve both deep affection and a knowing silence.…we feel the poet has spoken to us heart to heart, with a naturalness we trust.” Armen Davoudian’s poems and translations have appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic, and elsewhere BENJAMIN GUCCIARDI’s most recent book is “West Portal,” selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award and Julie Suk Award. Calvocoressi says, “The beautiful and the terrible live alongside each other in this work. And so often, they’re actually the same thing. Or they are happening all at once. There is such deep searching in this book and such formal precision. And the language is luminous, which makes the harrowing physical and psychic landscape even more profound.” His forthcoming collection “Arguments,” winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, will be published later this year. His previous works are the chapbooks “Timeless Tips for Simple Sabotage,” winner of the Quarterly West Chapbook contest, and “I Ask My Sister’s Ghost.” His poems have appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, and POETRY. Recent work has been featured in Poetry Daily. He founded Soccer Without Borders in 2006 and continues to work with refugee and immigrant youth through soccer, education, and community-building. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/berkeley/robin-becker-armen-davoudian-ben-gucciardi/200030247955846 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Contests - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Berkeley - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Art House Gallery & Cultural Center - **lat**: 37.85642 - **long**: -122.26633 - **full address**: Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Ave,Berkeley, California, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Robin Becker, Armen Davoudian, Ben Gucciardi - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/965431ea9a7ffd19746a1494309f606661c30edab9655f84aa2c1f53c254ffaa-rimg-w1200-h960-dc886f62-gmir?v=1781596485 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Robin Becker, Armen Davoudian, Ben Gucciardi being held? - **A:** Robin Becker, Armen Davoudian, Ben Gucciardi takes place on Sun, 21 Jun, 2026 at 03:00 pm to Sun, 21 Jun, 2026 at 03:00 pm at Art House Gallery & Cultural Center, 2905 Shattuck Ave,Berkeley, California, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Robin Becker, Armen Davoudian, Ben Gucciardi? - **A:** Robin Becker, Armen Davoudian, Ben Gucciardi is organized by Poetry Flash. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Robin Becker, Armen Davoudian, Ben Gucciardi", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/965431ea9a7ffd19746a1494309f606661c30edab9655f84aa2c1f53c254ffaa-rimg-w1200-h960-dc886f62-gmir?v=1781596485", "startDate": "2026-06-21", "url": "https://allevents.in/berkeley/robin-becker-armen-davoudian-ben-gucciardi/200030247955846", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Art House Gallery & Cultural Center", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "2905 Shattuck Ave,Berkeley, California", "addressLocality": "Berkeley", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "37.85642", "longitude": "-122.26633" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Poetry Flash presents a Father’s Day poetry reading. 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