The 10th Annual Jax Poetry Fest will kick off on Tuesday, April 1, 2025 with 100% FREE in-person and virtual events, performances, and exhibits. Check out our full schedule below filled with workshops, poetry performances and more! A big thank you to our partners and sponsors who make this community event possible.

Schedule Of Events

Virtual Poetry Workshop

Protest and Hope: The Deep Contradictions of our Time, featuring Yvette Angelique, MA-TLA, CMT-P, MBSR-Q

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm - Register on Eventbrite

Join Yvette Angelique for this workshop where you will craft poems to cultivate vision, courage, and decisive action. Consider today’s political landscape, along with movements for racial and gender equality and human rights. Protest poetry has helped encourage civic and grassroots engagement and adds to public debate and dialogue.

Yvette Angelique (MA-TLA, CMT-P, MBSR-Q), a poet, is the founder of Narratives for Change, a social justice art and mindfulness education practice. She uses storytelling to heal, create art, and raise consciousness on cultural issues, leading us toward liberation. Prioritizing people of the global majority, her work stresses slowing down, body awareness, cultural experience, and present moment awareness—especially for writers and folks leading community change.