Armen Davoudian
Formalist Track Faculty
Armen Davoudian is the author of The Palace of Forty Pillars (Tin House), which won the Northern California Book Award in Poetry and was long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. He is also translator, from Persian, of Hopscotch by Fatemeh Shams.
More at: https://www.armendavoudian.com/
Lauren Camp
Poetry Seminar Faculty
Lauren Camp served as the second New Mexico Poet Laureate. She is the author of nine poetry collections, most recently Is Is Enough (Texas Review Press, 2026) and In Old Sky (Grand Canyon Conservancy, 2024), which grew out of her experience as Astronomer-in-Residence at Grand Canyon National Park, and won the New Mexico Book Award. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and Black Earth Institute, a Dorset Prize, a Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, and finalist citations for the Arab American Book Award, Best of the Net, and Adrienne Rich Award. Her poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, Poem-a-Day, The Slowdown, Beloit Poetry Journal and numerous anthologies, and have been translated into Mandarin, Turkish, Spanish, French, and Arabic. She founded and spearheaded the New Mexico Epic Poem Project, in partnership with New Mexico Arts, to amplify the creative voices of residents in rural, arts-underserved communities.
More at: https://www.laurencamp.com/
Patrick Donnelly
Program Director and Faculty
Patrick Donnelly, director of The Frost Place Poetry Seminar since 2011, is the author of five books of poems, most recently Willow Hammer (Four Way Books, 2025), and Little-Known Operas (Four Way Books, 2019). Gregory Orr wrote “everything he writes is suffused with tenderness and intelligence, lucidity and courage.” Donnelly has taught at Smith College, Colby College, the Lesley University MFA Program, The Frost Place, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and elsewhere. His poetry has appeared in many journals, including American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review Online, Ploughshares, The Yale Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. With his spouse Stephen D. Miller, Donnelly translates classical Japanese poetry and drama. Their translations in The Wind from Vulture Peak (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013) were awarded the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Donnelly’s other awards include a U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program Award, an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and an Amy Clampitt Residency Award.
More at: https://www.patrickdonnellypoetry.com