Paradiso 26: MC Hyland, Lightsey Darst, Sharon Kunde

The poetry performance series presents a powerful trio!

MC HYLAND (she/they) is the founding editor of poetry micro press DoubleCross Press. She is the author of over a dozen poetry chapbooks/artist books and two previous full-length books of poems, THE END (Sidebrow 2019) and Neveragainland (Lowbrow Press 2010). Her book of short essays, The Dead and the Living and the Bridge, came out with Meekling Press this April. MC lives in St. Paul, MN with her partner, Jeff, and cat, Dakota.

LIGHTSEY DARST has published four books of poetry with Coffee House Press, including The Heiress/Ghost Acres (2023). She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, one for dance criticism and one for poetry. She lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her family. You can find her newsletter Now*ing on Substack+.

SHARON KUNDE is an Assistant Professor at the Maine College of Art and Design. Her writing, which includes scholarship, poetry, and fiction, attends to the body’s enmeshment in an environment shaped by racial patriarchal colonial capitalism’s violent extractivism. She has published work in Twentieth Century Literature, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Harvard Review, ISLE, the Cincinnati Review, and others, and her chapbook Year of the Sasquatch was published by Dancing Girl Press in 2022.

Doors at 6:30 pm, reading at 7 pm. BYO or sample what’s on hand.