Poetry in the Margins

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.