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The nation's first academic center for Black poetry, Furious Flower was established on the James Madison University campus to serve creative writers, literary and cultural scholars, and poetry lovers everywhere.

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Check out our latest Poetry Broadside Exhibition, History Repeating Repeating, curated by Program and Operations Manager Jazmin Witherspoon. This exhibition presents the poem as both a resistor and a record keeper of history's timeless cycles.

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Nikki Giovanni: Poet. Beacon. Legacy.

The Furious Flower family mourns the loss of our beloved friend, the incomparable poet Nikki Giovanni.
Furious Flower Poetry Center Announces the Winners of 2024 Furious Flower Poetry Prize

Furious Flower Poetry Center announces the winner and honorable mention for the 2024 Furious Flower Poetry Prize judged by Roger Reeves.
Joanne Gabbin, PhD Remembers Former Furious Flower Advisory Board Member

Joanne Gabbin, Ph.D., remembers former board member John Wharton Lowe, III, Ph.D.
Furious Flower Welcomes Gbenga Adesina, Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Black Global and Diasporic Poetry

Furious Flower welcomes new Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in Black Global and Diasporic Poetry
Furious Flower Poetry Center Hosts Over 20 Scholars and Poets to Create an Open-Access Curriculum

Furious Flower Poetry Center and Furious Flower Advisory Board creates open-access Furious Flower Syllabus

Furious Flower Poetry Center

Cardinal House
MSC 3802
500 Cardinal
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807

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540/568-8883

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