2025.12.3 Weather Poetics:

MC Hyland and David Larsen

The Some Contemporary Poetries (SCP) Initiative & the Organism for Poetic Research (OPR) warmly invite you to Weather Poetics: A Reading & Conversation with MC Hyland and David Larsen. 

When: Wednesday December 3rd, 6:00 PM 
Where: Event Space, 244 Greene St
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David Larsen is a U.S. poet and translator of classical Arabic texts. His most recent translation is of Abū Zayd Al-Anṣāri’s the Book of Rain (Wave, 2025). His translation of Ibn Khālawayh’s Names of the Lion (Wave Books) received the 2018 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. A former fellow of the Library of Arabic Literature, he is at work on a bilingual edition of the poems of Jamīl Buthaynah. David Larsen lives in New York City. 

MC Hyland (she/they) is the founding editor of DoubleCross Press, a poetry micropress. MC is the author of three full-length books of poems: Walks & Weathers (Beauty School Editions 2025), THE END (Sidebrow 2019) and Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press 2010) and a  book of short essays, The Dead and the Living and the Bridge (Meekling Press 2025). They have also published over a dozen poetry chapbooks/artist books. Holding MFAs in Creative Writing and Book Arts from the University of Alabama, and a PhD in English Literature from NYU, MC is a teacher, scholar, artist, and arts administrator, and lives in St. Paul, MN with her partner, Jeff, and cat, Dakota.