Join us at 7:00pm on February 18, 2023 at Arts + Literature Laboratory for an extraordinary night of poetry with Andrea Potos, Steven Espada Dawson, and K Iver. Andrea Potos is the author of several poetry collections, including Her Joy Becomes (Fernwood Press), Marrow of Summer and Mothershell (both from Kelsay Books), A Stone to Carry Home and An Ink Like Early Twilight (both from Salmon Poetry in Ireland). Steven Espada Dawson is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship. K Iver’s poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, TriQuarterly, The Adroit, and elsewhere.
February Watershed Reading
Andrea Potos is the author of several poetry collections, including most recently Her Joy Becomes (Fernwood Press), Marrow of Summer and Mothershell (both from Kelsay Books), A Stone to Carry Home and An Ink Like Early Twilight (both from Salmon Poetry in Ireland). She has received several Outstanding Achievement Awards in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library Association, the James Hearst Poetry Prize from the North American Review, and the William Stafford Prize in Poetry from Rosebud Magazine. Her poems can be found widely in print and online, including The Sun, Poetry East, Potomac Review, Cave Wall, Lyric, Bearings Online, Braided Way, and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope (Storey Publishing). Andrea was a longtime bookseller in independent bookstores in Madison.
Steven Espada Dawson is from East Los Angeles and the author of LATE TO THE SEARCH PARTY (Scribner, 2025). The son of a Mexican immigrant, he is a former Ruth Lilly Fellow and Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellow. He received his MFA in the Midwest, served as a poetry editor for Copper Nickel and Sycamore Review, and has taught creative writing at universities, libraries, and prisons across the country. 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.
K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet from Mississippi. Their poems have appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, TriQuarterly, The Adroit, and elsewhere. Their book Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco won the 2022 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry and is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. Iver is the 2021-2022 Ronald Wallace Fellow for Poetry at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry from Florida State University.
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