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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.

Spotlight

Announcing Furious Flower IV!
We are thrilled to announce the fourth, historic, once-in-a-decade Furious Flower Conference. Click the link below to view more details and to subscribe for updates.
Our Next Events
Tawanda Mulalu: Poetry Reading
This event is free and open to the public. It will be livestreamed on Facebook; the recording will be uploaded to YouTube following the reading.


First Fridays at Furious Flower Broadside Gallery
Join us on 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.