Jovan Mays is the former Aurora Poet Laureate and is the director of Your Writing Counts. Mays also assisted with the launch of A Story, which is a web publication that gives readers an authentic look at student life at Aurora Public Schools. He also collects classic radios, donning a healthy number of 50, varying from handheld radios to home stereo systems, shortwave to longwave transmissions. His appreciation for the Marconi invention is driven by the nostalgic symbolism and the progression and their ingenuity in technology and design. Photo by Philip B. Poston/The Sentinel.

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