Jax by Jax Literary Arts Festival is thrilled to welcome Yvette Angelique, MA-TLA, poet, teaching artist, and proven culture change strategist. Yvette’s recent work is a digital poetry chapbook book, Something Old, New, Borrowed, and The Blues (2020) and poetry chapbook Shut Eyes See (2018). Her poems, essays, and epistles appear in book chapters, anthologies, and journals. Her writing explores the intricacies of race, gender, and arts activism. She completed her graduate work in Creative Writing at the University of Denver and TLA Writing for Personal and Social Change at Goddard College.

JaxbyJax Literary Arts Festival VII is a celebration of Jacksonville Writers Writing Jacksonville. Generous sponsors include Baptist Health, Chamblins Uptown & Bookmine, Delegal & Poindexter, PA; Scribbles, and Brad Kuhn & Associates, LLC.

The 2020 festival will take the form of a documentary video, with watch parties at noon on Saturday, October 17th and 7 p.m. on Sunday, October 18th. For details, see jaxbyjax.com.