Futile Poetry presents "Slow Heat," a Futile Poetry Reading featureing Caleb Nolen, followed by Poetry Open Mic! Come experience the work of featured reader, Caleb Nolen, whose poetry appeared in various publications including The Sun Magazine and Georgia Review. Enjoy a cider, cocktail, or mocktail and listen (or share your own) amazing local poetry! FREE […]
oin us Friday, September 1 and Friday, October 6 from 5-7 p.m. at Furious Flower Poetry Center (Cardinal House, 500 Cardinal Dr.) for the debut of our fourth exhibit, Be)Holding: Poems of Love & Loss, curated by Michael Trocchia, Be)Holding Series Coordinator. About the exhibit: Poems hold us. They hold our grief, our love. They […]
Join Church World Service Harrisonburg (CWS), MRL, and author Nadia Hashimi (attending virtually) to discuss Hashimi’s novel, "When the Moon is Low." Guests will also learn how CWS welcomes refugees and newcomers to the Shenandoah Valley and ways for the community to be involved in welcoming work. This event is part of CWS' Welcoming Week […]
Join us Friday, September 1 and Friday, October 6 from 5-7 p.m. at Furious Flower Poetry Center (Cardinal House, 500 Cardinal Dr.) for the debut of our fourth exhibit, Be)Holding: Poems of Love & Loss, curated by Michael Trocchia, Be)Holding Series Coordinator. About the exhibit: Poems hold us. They hold our grief, our love. They […]
Join us Friday, September 1 and Friday, October 6 from 5-7 p.m. at Furious Flower Poetry Center (Cardinal House, 500 Cardinal Dr.) for the debut of our fourth exhibit, Be)Holding: Poems of Love & Loss, curated by Michael Trocchia, Be)Holding Series Coordinator. About the exhibit: Poems hold us. They hold our grief, our love. They […]
EMU's Lehman Auditorium. Free and open to the public. No tickets necessary. Book-signing follows. Kate Baer is a 2007 EMU alum and New York Times bestselling author of three poetry collections, What Kind Of Woman (2020), I Hope This Finds You Well (2021), and And Yet (2022). Her work has been published in The New […]
Join us for an open mic (6:30 p.m.) and poetry reading (7:30 p.m.), featuring Safia Elhillo. Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press), which received the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets and an Arab American Book Award, Girls that Never Die (One World/Random House), and the novel in […]
Join us Wednesday, November 8th at 7PM for a discussion on our October Book Club pick, The Prospectors by Ariel Djanikian!
Join us for our final reading Thursday, November 9 at 5 p.m. in Warren 256 (The Union) in the Fall 2023 Furious Flower Reading Series, featuring Tawanda Mulalu. Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana in 1997. His first book, Please make me pretty, I don't want to die, was selected by Susan Stewart for the […]
WMRA’s November Books & Brews will feature retired chaplain Russ Ford and Dr. Todd C. Peppers discussing, Crossing the River Styx, the memoir of a Death Row Chaplain. Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at 7pm. Live at Pale Fire Brewing Company, and available later on WMRA's Youtube Channel and on Facebook. Signed copies of Crossing the […]
Join us on Friday, November 3 and December 1 from 5-7 p.m. for another First Friday at Furious Flower Broadside Gallery, featuring our fifth exhibit, "Home: Place, Flight, and Memory," curated by Gbenga Adesina, Furious Flower Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Black Global & Diasporic Poetry. About the exhibit: Reader, this exhibition invites you to ponder […]
The Traveling Lantern Theater Company presents: "The Story of Ebenezer Scrooge - or A Christmas Carol." Ebenezer Scrooge is a nasty, mean, snarling old man with no care for anything other than his money. His one and only friend visits him as a ghost, and starts him on a journey that melts his icy heart […]
� Join us with Everett Brubaker for a signing of his picture book, Do You Need a Song? Saturday, March 9th 12PM-1PM Sometimes a simple song can help children navigate all of life's biggest feelings. ‘Do You Need a Song?’ is the joint project of childhood friends Everett and Kendall, who reconnected after two decades […]
Ahoy! Come join us on Tuesday, March 12th as we celebrate the release of not one, not two, but THREE new Once Piece volumes! We will have free One Piece themed goodies, crafts, and a raffle* with a special prize! The fun starts at 1PM and will continue until we close! See ya there! *purchase […]
WMRA’s March Books & Brews will feature Samuel Halpern discussing, "Wellsprings of Work: Surprising Sources of Meaning and Motivation in Work". Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 7pm. Live at Pale Fire Brewing Company and available later on WMRA's Youtube Channel and on Facebook. In Wellsprings of Work, Halpern takes a measured look at the value […]
Join us Wednesday, March 21 at 7pm in Wilson Hall Auditorium at James Madison University for a reading and conversation with Shane McCrae, award-winning poet and memoirist. McCrae's most recent books of poetry are Cain Named the Animal, a finalist for the Forward Prize and longlisted for the PEN/Voelcker Award, and The Many Hundreds of […]
Join Staunton cartoonist Ryan B. for the opening reception of his art show "Robots! Animals! Aliens! the Cartoon Art of Ryan B." Ryan will have pages of original art from his comics on display, along with a selection of other art. This event will also serve as the book release for Ryan's newest graphic novel […]
Join us for the 2024 Rocktown Author Festival on Saturday, April 13th, from Noon to 4PM at Central Library in downtown Harrisonburg. Come meet 18 local authors (chosen through a competitive application process) as they discuss, sign, and sell their books. 2024 Festival authors include: Cara Sue Achterberg, Ryan B., Everett Brubaker, Heather Cole, Laura […]