Furious Flower Poetry Center is thrilled to announce the second exhibition of the Furious Flower Broadside Gallery, Black Women, Black Spring for the Arts Council of the Valley's First Friday tour on Friday, April 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. We are excited to welcome members of the community to see our new exhibit curated […]
Join us at Furious Flower Broadside Gallery for another Arts Council of the Valley First Friday Downtown Art Tour. Our third exhibit, "The Writing on the Wall: Reading Black Poetry," curated by Furious Flower Advisory Board Vice Chair Susan Facknitz, will debut June 2 with a second reception on July 7. About the Exhibit: We […]
Join us at Furious Flower Broadside Gallery for another Arts Council of the Valley First Friday Downtown Art Tour. Our third exhibit, "The Writing on the Wall: Reading Black Poetry," curated by Furious Flower Advisory Board Vice Chair Susan Facknitz, will debut June 2 with a second reception on July 7. About the Exhibit: We […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]