Join us for the VMB monthly book club for a guided discussion of Felix Ever After.

From Stonewall and Lambda Award–winning author Kacen Callender comes a revelatory YA novel about a transgender teen grappling with identity and self-discovery while falling in love for the first time.

Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after.

Drop the needle and grab a pint, it’s Record Night! Every third Wednesday we have an open genre theme so you can bring in any album that is calling you. Make it fun, make it weird, make it what you will.

Join us for a welcoming, in-person gathering for people who want to read, reflect, and write in community.
We will begin with a poem and a short fiction or nonfiction selection, followed by conversation about what the writing is doing and how it works on the page.
Together, we’ll explore craft elements such as imagery, diction, metaphor, structure, and line or sentence movement in a way that is inviting and accessible to all.
Participants will spend time writing from guided prompts designed to spark ideas and help the words flow. At the end, those who wish may share what they wrote or reflect on the writing experience.
This is not a formal workshop or critique group, but an inspiring, low-pressure space to enjoy good writing and create some of your own.
CHARLENE PIERCE is a poet, teaching artist, and founder and President of the Nebraska Poetry Society.
A Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net finalist, her work appears in Poetry Foundation, Tri Quarterly, Whale Road Review, The Good Life Review, and 805 Lit + Art , and has been anthologized in Until There Are No Words Left and Misbehaving Nebraskans.
The Poetry Foundation selected her to teach a poetry workshop, publish a craft essay, and give a public reading for the Forms & Features Series.
She holds an MFA from Pacific University, where she was a Merit Scholar, and is passionate about helping poets deepen their craft while supporting their creative and professional development.
No registration necessary. Bring your favorite writing tools and join us. Free parking is available in the east-side parking lot. Vis Major Brewing has food, mocktails and cocktails for purchase.
FREE and open to the public.

We are switching up the week we meet this month due to travel, but hope you can join us for a guided discussion of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab.

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab is a fantasy novel about a French woman who makes a Faustian bargain for immortality in 1714, but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets, leading to a life across centuries where she influences art and history until she meets a man in a New York bookstore who remembers her. The story explores themes of memory, identity, love, and legacy, following Addie's journey as she learns to live a life without being remembered, and her eventual connection with Henry Strauss, who remembers her name. 

Join us for a welcoming, in-person gathering for people who want to read, reflect, and write in community.
We will begin with a poem and a short fiction or nonfiction selection, followed by conversation about what the writing is doing and how it works on the page.
Together, we’ll explore craft elements such as imagery, diction, metaphor, structure, and line or sentence movement in a way that is inviting and accessible to all.
Participants will spend time writing from guided prompts designed to spark ideas and help the words flow. At the end, those who wish may share what they wrote or reflect on the writing experience.
This is not a formal workshop or critique group, but an inspiring, low-pressure space to enjoy good writing and create some of your own.
CHARLENE PIERCE is a poet, teaching artist, and founder and President of the Nebraska Poetry Society.
A Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Net finalist, her work appears in Poetry Foundation, Tri Quarterly, Whale Road Review, The Good Life Review, and 805 Lit + Art , and has been anthologized in Until There Are No Words Left and Misbehaving Nebraskans.
The Poetry Foundation selected her to teach a poetry workshop, publish a craft essay, and give a public reading for the Forms & Features Series.
She holds an MFA from Pacific University, where she was a Merit Scholar, and is passionate about helping poets deepen their craft while supporting their creative and professional development.
No registration necessary. Bring your favorite writing tools and join us. Free parking is available in the east-side parking lot. Vis Major Brewing has food, mocktails and cocktails for purchase.
FREE and open to the public.