Jovan Mays to present next Graves Series lecture
Jovan Mays, a Chadron State College senior from Aurora, Colo., will present the next installment of the Graves Lecture Series.
His presentation, “Slam Poetry: America's True Pastime?,” will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, in room 108 of the Reta King Library. It is open to the public free of charge.
Mays, a secondary education and history major who performs at competitions throughout the region, plans to tell how modern slam and spoken-word poetry is employed as a method of storytelling to convey history. He recently placed at the Great Plains Pile-Up Slam Poetry tournament at Fremont.
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