THREE-DAY FESTIVAL CELEBRATES BALTIMORE’S YOUTH POETS:
From April 23 through 26, DewMore Baltimore and the Black Arts District is hosting The 2026 Youth Poetry Festival. Over the course of three days, hundreds of young writers from Baltimore City and Baltimore County will gather to create, share, and build. This festival will be a premier spring event for young Baltimorean writers to develop their inner poet and compete to become the next Baltimore Youth Poet Laureate.