Chessy Normile at the University of Dubuque -- April 3 (photo by Courtney Allen).
Monday, April 3, 4:30 p.m.
University of Dubuque's Multicultural Student Center, 2000 University Avenue, Dubuque IA
Offering a presentation in the Archway Reading and Lecture Series, award-winning poets and fellowship recipients Chessy Normile and Steven Espada Dawson will speak at the University of Dubuque on April 3, the thoughtful and arresting punlic event sponsored by UD’s Department of English and UD’s Office of Academic Affairs.
Normile is a writer from New York currently living in Madison, Wisconsin, as the 2022-23 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She received a BA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in poetry from The Michener Center for Writers at University of Texas at Austin, where she was awarded an Academy of American Poets University Prize. Her first book of poems, Great Exodus, Great Wall, Great Party, was selected by Li-Young Lee for the 2020 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. Normile also edits a zine series titled Girl Blood Info.
Madison resident Dawson, meanwhile, grew up in Los Angeles and earned a BA from University of Colorado Denver and an MFA in creative writing from Purdue University. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Gulf Coast, Colorado Review, Adroit Journal, Kenyon Review Online, The Pinch, Thrush, and Waxwing, as well as in the anthology Best New Poets 2020. In 2021, Dawson received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, and he has also received the Barriss and Iola Mills Award, Kneale Award, and Purdue Federal Credit Union Award. Additionally, he was a finalist for the New Ohio Review poetry prize, and has served as an editor at Copper Nickel and Sycamore Review.
Chessy Normile and Steven Espada Dawson will present their reading and discussions on April 3 in the University of Dubuque Multicultural Student Center's Peter and Susan Smith Welcome Center, participation in the 4:30 p.m. event is free, and more information is available by calling (563)589-3267 and visiting Dbq.edu.
