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The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation (Dodge Foundation) and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) launched Dodge Poetry – a new collaboration that celebrates poetry as a catalyst for communities to advance social change. Read the full announcement.
Through this initiative, Dodge Poetry will expand beyond the biennial festival to include year-long programming in Newark. Dodge Poetry events will have three goals to:
1) mobilize communities and fuel movements for social change;
2) amplify poet activists who challenge and reframe existing narratives and norms; and
3) create spaces for empathy, healing, and repair for individuals who have experienced systemic racism.
dodge poetry festival is back!
We are excited to announce that the submissions application for the 2026 Dodge Poetry Festival, held from October 15-17, 2026, is now open! We invite all poets, which encompasses artists who practice spoken word, slam, performance poetry and avant-garde, who use their poetry as a catalyst for social change to apply. The Deadline is Friday, March 20, 2026.
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