Beginners’ Poetry Slam

Since the 1980s, poetry and performance have collided in the form of poetry slams – lively competitions of spoken word poetry – judged by the audience. Celebrate the Bard’s birthday by bringing a poem and your personality to the Local History Library @ The Depot for a poetry slam designed for beginners. If you don’t […]
Americana Lecture Series: Ron Nicholson

Help us kick off our Americana Speaker Series at the Aurora Public Library District with local professor Ron Nicholson! Ron will discuss the poems of Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, often heralded as two of the most famous American poets of all time, setting the tone of American poetry for centuries to come. While at […]