NewsREPLAY: The Shondaland Revolution
Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder aren’t just popular tv shows–they’re also groundbreaking. Michaela Meyer (Christopher Newport University) says showrunner Shonda Rhimes has changed the way …
NewsWriting Through
What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common? In her work, poet Julie Phillips Brown (Virginia Military Institute) dissects this and other biological queries, cleverly unveiling what makes …
NewsHave a Drink with Nikki and Tressie
This video, recorded September 9 2020, features two powerful, creative women: Nikki Giovanni, award-winning poet, activist, educator, and one of Oprah Winfrey’s “25 Living Legends,” and Tressie McMillan Cottom, professor …
NewsBearing Witness
Poets Lauren Alleyne (Honeyfish), Iréne Mathieu (Grand Marronage) and Amy Woolard (Neck of the Woods) read from their most recent collections, discuss writing, and writing in these times. “Honeyfish is …
NewsReplay: Poetic Justice
When writer and Invisibilia producer Lulu Miller discovered she’d be leaving Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state–one that charges everyday people to stay angry about injustice.
NewsLGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia
In this webinar, recorded June 30 2020, co-editors Jeff Mann and Julia Watts, and contributing writer Maggie Anderson, discuss identity, publishing, and community as related to their recent anthology, LGBTQ …
NewsLeah ‘n Lulu’s Virtual Picnic
In this webinar, recorded May 28 2020, poet Leah Naomi Green (The More Extravagant Feast) and author Lulu Miller (Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the …
NewsPoetry that Heals
To some, poetry and medicine seem like opposites. But both science and poetry use language to understand deeper truths about the human condition.
EventCanceled: Breaking Barriers and Building Bridges
This event, along with the rest of the 2020 Virginia Festival of the Book has been canceled.
EventCanceled: More Lasting Than Bronze
Word and Art as Grassroots Monuments Attend this round table talk to hear Paul Farber (Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia), conceptual visual artist Veronica Jackson, and Robert Schultz (War …
NewsWhistle Words
Humanities’ Power to Heal is a film and writing project capturing the transformational and healing power of writing for women diagnosed with cancer.
NewsPortraits of American Poetry
This past May, the world celebrated the 200th birthday of Walt Whitman. He remains one of the great American poets, a brilliant figure in the American imagination that he came, …
