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Photo by Marcel Vocino.

David Larsen is a scholar and translator of pre-modern Arabic literature. His poetry collections are The Thorn (Faux Press, 2005) and Zeroes Were Hollow (Kenning Editions, 2022). His translation of Ibn Khalawayh’s Names of the Lion (Wave Books, 2017) received the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Larsen teaches at NYU in Liberal Studies.