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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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    Furious Flower mourns the passing of poet Kamau Brathwaite, internationally renowned Barbadian poet and historian.

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    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.”

  • default image 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.

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Furious Flower Poetry Center
Cardinal House
MSC 3802
500 Cardinal
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807