Furious Flower 2025 Poetry Prize Reading

NOTE: This in-person event will be live-streamed for those who cannot physically attend.

The Furious Flower Reading Series is back this fall with our first event of the semester! Join us as we recognize this year’s Furious Flower Poetry Prize winner, honorable mention, and judge on Sept. 18 at 5 PM in Taylor 404. You don’t want to miss it!

Experience an unforgettable evening featuring:


Martins Deep – winner of the 2025 Furious Flower Poetry Prize

Ian-Khara Ellasante – honorable mention

Aracelis Girmay – our distinguished judge

This is just the beginning of an incredible season of poetry. This reading is free and open to the public. Bring a friend!


Alt Text: Flyer for the event with a black and yellow background. It features the date and time of the event (Sept 18th, 2025 at 5PM in Taylor 404), as well as the readers (from left to right: Judge Aracelis Girmay, Winner Martins Deep, and Honorable Mention Ian-Khara Ellasante)


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You may also like the following events from Furious Flower Poetry Center:

• Next Monday, 1st September, 10:00 pm, FFPC Book Launch Reading for Dr. Gbenga Adesina’s Debut Collection Death "Does Not End at the Sea" in Harrisonburg, Virginia
• Next Friday, 5th September, 05:00 pm, First Friday Broadside Gallery: Language, Lessons, and Lineage in Harrisonburg

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