Jovan Mays shares his poems, “To Jovan, the Writer” & “Black Boys”

Jovan is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Aurora, Colorado, a National Poetry Slam Champion, and the Youth Voice Coordinator of Aurora Public Schools. As an arts educator, Mays has worked with over 1 million students throughout the Denver Metro and beyond through poetry outreach in his program, Your Writing Counts. Author of 3 books; Pride, The Great Box Escape and This Is Your Song. Mays’ work has been published by The Pilgrimage, Button Poetry, and Write About Now. He is a graduate of Chadron State College where he played football, wrestled, and earned a degree in Secondary History Education.

Website: www.jovanmays.com Instagram: @jovanmays

2021 This Is My Brave Stories from the Black Community Volume 2

“[W]e still fail to intercept what we saw coming. On these days we're all black boys; all broken, forever baffled, and right now out there in our own streets, bleeding.”

–Jovan Mays

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