March 27, 2023 All Events

Archway Reading and Lecture Series to Host Reading with Chessy Normile and Steven Espada Dawson

Date
April 3, 2023 - April 3, 2023 Add Event To Calendar
Time
4:30 p.m.
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The Archway Reading and Lecture Series at the University of Dubuque will host a reading and discussion with Chessy Normile and Steven Espada Dawson at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 3, 2023, in the Multicultural Student Center, Peter and Susan Smith Welcome Center on campus.

The event is free and open to the public. It will include a brief Q&A with Normile and Espada Dawson.

Normile is the author of Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party, which was selected by Li-Young Lee for the 2020 American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. She received a master of fine arts from the Michener Center for Writers, where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets University Prize. Normile edits a magazine series called Girl Blood Info and is the 2022-2023 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Espada Dawson is a writer from East Los Angeles who now lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he is the 2022-2023 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Fellow in Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. The son of a Mexican immigrant, Espada Dawson received his master of fine arts from Purdue University and was the recipient of a Pushcart Prize. In 2021, he received a Ruth Lily and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Mostly recently, Espada Dawson's poems have appeared in AGNI, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review, POETRY, and Waxwing.