Latest Past Events

Food 4 Thought Poetry Slam

Join Poet Laureate, Roscoe Burnems, for Richmond's is "FIRST big money poetry slam"! Brought to you by Sunday Service Soul Food, Lifeline Poetry, & The Writer's Den Competitors will be performing for the chance to win a $1000 Grand Prize, $500 runner-up prize, and city-wide notoriety! Date and time Fri, October 1, 2021 7:00 PM...

$30

Urban Fiction Experience

Richmond Public Library 101 E. Franklin St, Richmond

Urban Fiction Experience When: Sat., Sept. 25, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Phone: 804-646-2554 Email: [email protected] Price: Free Experience urban fiction at its finest with NYT Best-Selling Author Nikki Turner, Richmond Poet Laureate Roscoe Burnems, and other notable urban fiction authors. Features author workshops, readings, and chances to talk with some great authors.

POETRY&MOTION

Richmond’s first poet laureate and national slam poetry champion, Roscoe Burnems, collaborates with performance artist, Christina Leoni-Osion, to offer POETRY&MOTION, a multisensory experience of poetry as performance art. What is poetry as a performance art? What is the relationship between movement and language? How does being outside in nature influence the creative process? By writing...