Literature

Makin’ Cake is written and performed by Dasha Kelly Hamilton, author, poet laureate, and creative change agent. Kelly Hamilton cuts into a cake, revealing what its history and ingredients can teach us about race, class and equity in America. AND a post-show cake reception

Written and Performed by Dasha Kelly Hamilton Tue, Mar 21 @ 8 pm CONCERT HALL Wisconsin Poet Laureate and Milwaukee’s 2021 Artist of the Year, Dasha Kelly Hamilton is a widely-respected writer, performance artist and creative change agent. In Makin’ Cake, she slices into American history, exploring race, culture and class in a refreshing and fun way. […]

Join us for an open mic and poetry reading from international poet, Mervyn Taylor at The Golden Pony in downtown Harrisonburg on March 23. Taylor is a Trinidad-born poet who divides his time between Brooklyn, NY, and his native island. In his poems, for which he received two New York State Council on the Arts […]

A Reading & Conversation With New York Times-Bestselling Author, Garrard Conley Garrard Conley is the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir Boy Erased (Penguin 2016), now a major motion picture. Boy Erased was nominated for a Lamdba Literary Award and was featured as a top 2016 nonfiction book by O Magazine, Buzzfeed Books, and […]

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 […]