The 2025 LOUD Youth Poetry Festival

The 2025 LOUD Youth Poetry Festival

  • ALL AGES

The L.O.U.D. Poetry Festival is a youth event for poets 13-19 to compete, showcase, and heal through poetry while winning cash prizes.

Date and time

Saturday, May 17 · 11am - 6pm EDT

Location

Columbia High School

17 Parker Avenue Maplewood, NJ 07040

About this event

  • Event lasts 7 hours
  • ALL AGES
  • Free venue parking

The L.O.U.D. (Living Our Ultimate Dreams) Poetry Festival is an all day youth festival where teams from across NJ come together to compete and slam, showcase their poems, partake in workshops, as well as win cash prizes. Open to poets aged 13-19, The L.O.U.D Festival centers healing and joy while celebrating the power of storytelling through poetry.

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