Boswell hosts an evening with Madison's Poet Laureate, Steven Espada Dawson, who appears with Late to the Search Party, a bold and beautiful collection that explores family, addiction, and loss. This event is cohosted by Woodland Pattern.
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Steven Espada Dawson's first full length poetry collection is a crystalline debut exploring themes of family, addiction, belonging, and loss—a searching elegy of the fissures that have come to define contemporary American life.
From Boswellian Chris Lee: "This is the raw, urgent howl of a young poet who’s bleeding onto the page, yet it’s written with the lyrical sophistication and control of a master stylist, one who’s lived more than a few lives. It is a marvel."
From Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!: "Late to the Search Party reads like the kind of collection a poet builds toward their entire career—that it's Steven Espada Dawson's debut is frankly a little absurd... really dazzling... Contemporary poetry's next generation."
Steven Espada Dawson 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, Pushcart Prize, and Sarabande’s Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction & Deliverance. He has taught creative writing at universities, libraries, and prisons across the country. He lives in Madison, where he serves as poet laureate.
