The Jason Taylor Foundation’s Omari Hardwick bluapple Poetry Network, in partnership with the NHL’s Florida Panthers Hockey Club, announces the 2025-2026 Panthers’ Poetry Project Contest. The contest window is September 26, 2025 to December 12, 2025. If you wish for your class or school to participate, please email the Programs Coordinator, Christopher Simpson, at christopher@jasontaylorfoundation.com […]
The South Florida Youth Poet Laureate competition is a collaboration between the Jason Taylor Foundation’s Omari Hardwick bluapple Poetry Network, and Urban Word, a New York-based literary arts education and youth development organization that facilitates the National Youth Poet Laureate competition, a program that, as of 2026, is in more than fifty cities/regions across […]
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 November 1st for a full day of workshops and sharing. Programming begins at 8:30 a.m., […]
SOUTH FLORIDA YOUTH POET LAUREATE • • The Jason Taylor Foundation has selected a winner in its South Florida Youth Poet Laureate program on April 30, 2026. Well known for being one of the leading ways of identifying powerful youth poets, the competition looks to give young minds a means of showing off their […]
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.
bluapple Poetry Summer Workshop Series For many young writers, summer is more than a break from school. It is finally a chance to breathe, create, reflect, and reconnect with themselves outside of grades, deadlines, and expectations. The Lab is a summer poetry and creative writing workshop series designed for teens who want to strengthen […]
