Urban Air Adventure Park and The Jason Taylor Foundation announce the 2024-2025 “blu is For Apples” Poetry Contest as part of its Louder Than A Bomb Florida poetry festival. In partnering with Broward and Miami-Dade County Public Schools, we are inviting your school to participate in this great program to hold the […]
>> Register Now For Louder Than A Bomb Florida! << >> Click Here for LTABFLA Rules & Guidelines! << Louder Than A Bomb (LTAB) was founded in 2001, through the Young Chicago Authors, by Kevin Coval and Anna West and went on to become the largest youth poetry festival in […]
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW! Our annual bluapple Poetry & Leadership Conference is for passionate wordsmiths, soulful singers, songwriters, and storytellers in alliance with professional poets coming from South Florida. Come join us and students from across the state on January 11th for a full day of workshops and sharing. Programming begins at 8:30 a.m., […]
Each summer, the Jason Taylor Foundation, through its Omari Hardwick bluapple Poetry Network, celebrates the beginning of the school year with the introduction of its newest and most fashion forward event to date. “The Get Up” An Urban Fashion Experience presented by AVEDA Institute South Florida, is a showcase of fashion, poetry and music […]
SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH POET LAUREATE • • The Jason Taylor Foundation is in the final stretch of accepting talented poet submissions for its South Florida Youth Poet Laureate program through March 1 2025. Well known for its being one of the leading ways of identifying powerful youth poets, the competition, looks to give young […]
Open Mics Monthly open mics give young poets an opportunity to flex their creative muscles in front of a supportive group of their peers. Lyrical Lounge is hosted by the City of Sunrise Civic Center. No registration necessary: sign up at the door.
The bluapple Poetry Network’s Educator’s Studio is a free series of workshops and discussions dedicated to providing teachers of writing and the arts with resources, concepts, and lesson plans that can be utilized in their classrooms, after school clubs, and other projects that inspire youth through poetry. Guest facilitators from Florida and across the […]
#JournalingForJustice was born out of the bluapple Poetry Network wanting to make sure that there is a maintained and concentrated focus on poems that address social justice. Many poems come through the bluapple Poetry Network and they are written by people from varied walks of life. However, #JournalingForJustice will highlight poems that directly address […]
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