Furious Flower Poetry Center

Celebrate. Educate. Preserve.

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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2020 Poetry Prize

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JMU professor and poet nominated for NAACP Image Awards
Professor Lauren K. Alleyne, an associate professor of English at James Madison University, has been nominated for the NAACP Image Awards for her book of poetry, “Honeyfish.”
Gerald Barrax (1933-2019)
Joanne V. Gabbin reflects on the life, work and death of the poet, who was struck and killed by a vehicle on Dec. 7, 2019.
The Living Truth: The Life and Work of Nikki Giovanni
Reflections from the 2019 Legacy Seminar

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