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Presentation: Poetry recitation by Steven Espada Dawson - "Elegy for the Four Chambers of My Mother's Heart"
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Steven Espada Dawson is the author of LATE TO THE SEARCH PARTY (Scribner, 2025). From East Los Angeles, and the son of a Mexican immigrant, he is a former Ruth Lilly Fellow and Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow. His poems appear in many journals and have been anthologized in Best New Poets, Best of the Net, Pushcart Prize, and Sarabande’s Another Last Call. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin, where he serves as Poet Laureate.