Poetry in the Margins

Important Update Regarding Meeting Usage During Library Renovation

During 2026, we will be undergoing a renovation to better serve the people of Dearborn County. 

Due to the renovation, access to the Youth Services Department will be closed to the public during January and February. You will still be able to use the Ewbank Meeting Room throughout this closure, but our procedures for using the room have been modified:

  • Please enter the library via the High St. entrance. This entrance provides direct access to the Ewbank Meeting Room only. To access other areas of the library, you must use the Mary St. or Parking Lot entrances.
  • Once inside, please call our Adult Services Department at 812-537-2775 Ext. 1125. Let us know that you have arrived and provide your group's name. A staff member will come to unlock the room for your group.
  • If you need any assistance at any time during your meeting, please call 812-537-2775 Ext. 1125 and a staff member will come to help.
  • When your meeting has finished, please call 812-537-2775 Ext. 1125 again to let us know. Please leave your clipboard in the room. A staff member will come to lock the room and collect the clipboard. There is no need to wait for us.

We are excited to share our upgraded spaces with you once renovations are complete. In the meantime, we appreciate your patience and understanding as we work to improve your library.

Age Group:

Teens, New Adult, Adults
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Program Description

Join Ron Nicholson,writer and a professor emeritus of English, for the program Poetry in the Margins.

This one-hour lecture is built around often ignored or silenced voices including those of women, people of color, Hispanics, the disabled, and indigenous people. It features Sappho, Sylvia Plath, Gwendolyn Brooks, Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Blas Manuel De Luna along with poems, insights, and backstories from the Holocaust, the LGBTQ community, and others. 

Included are the poems “We Real Cool”, “Still I Rise”, “I Too Am America”, “Lady Lazarus”, “Desiderata”, “Colors” by Shel Silverstein, and the heart wrenching “Then They Came for Me.” The lecture focuses on poets who are not white males and on the current need to better SEE these marginalized populations.

And while you try different types of poetry, also sample some different types of salsa in celebration of National Salsa Month.