Featuring Brenda Cardenas, the current Wisconsin Poet Laureate and James Roberts, celebrated poet and member of the leadership team for the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. The program will showcase banned poetry through time.  They will be joined by American Players Theatre actors Alys Dickerson, David Daniel and Rasell Holt. Together they will take you through a history of poems that have faced banning attempts, including Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Amanda Gorman’s inaugural poem in 2021 and the poetry of today.

This event is the first in a series as part of the Community Read during the month of October that is sponsored by the Spring Green Literary Festival.  This year’s theme is Banned Books.  Doors and the bar open at 6:00 PM. The event is free.

The Community Read is made possible by funds provided by River Valley Arts and the Wisconsin Arts Board.