“Shell Poems” was a project to put poems inside of sea shells on Miami Beach. 3-D printed shells with Bluetooth speakers hidden inside them were placed on Miami Beach for people to discover. When they put the shell up to their ear, one of several Ocean Vuong poems played, read by the poet himself.

O, Miami Poetry Festival 2018
Project by Ricardo Chuecos and Cristian Duran
Shell created by Mario “the Maker” Cruz
And Moonlighter Maker Space

Videography by Jorge Graupera
Editing by Scott Cunningham
Song: “Yellow Moon” by Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Poems to the Sky
A project for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2016
Created by Randy Burman

“Poems to the Sky” painted two poems on the rooftops of buildings near the flight paths of departing and arriving flights at Miami International Airport in Miami, FL. The project was created by artist Randy Burman as part of the 2016 O, Miami Poetry Festival. Both poems were written by students at Orchard Villa Elementary School in Liberty City: Nieema Marshall (3rd grade) and Tywon Williams (4th grade). Each day, approximately 650 planes pass over the poems. The students wrote the poems as part of O, Miami’s “Sunroom” poets-in-schools program. Collectively, the poems required 310 gallons of paint.

Students at FIU’s Honors College petitioned to get Tywon’s poem on top of one of the school’s parking garages and then did much of the manual labor of painting the poem. MANA Wynwood generously donated their roof to the project and supported the production costs.

O, Miami is principally-funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The Sunroom is funded by The Children’s Trust, a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County, and with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

Additional support provided by:
MANA Wynwood
FIU Honors College
Culture Builds Florida

Directed/Edited by P. Scott Cunningham
Videography by Gesi Schilling
Drone Photography by Dronemeisters LLC, FIU Honors College, & Uneeq Productions

A poetry workshop for patients, survivors, staff, and families at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. The workshop, led by poet Melanie Almeder, guided participants to write through their experiences. After the workshop, participants collaborated with henna artists to put tattoos of their poems on their bodies.

This program was presented as part of "Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry and the Body," a nationwide suite of programs produced by members of the Poetry Coalition. For more about the Coalition and their annual March programming, go to poets.org/academy-american-poets/poetry-coalition.

Music by Richard Hargett

Support for this program was provided by

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Knight Foundation
Ford Foundation
Miami-Dade County
State of Florida Culture Builds Florida

Videography by Rodrigo Gomez
Edited by Scott Cunningham
Titles by Omit Studios
Logo graphics by Topos Graphics

A project for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2016
Created by Joint Studio

The Poetry Roller is an original invention that writes shorts poems into wet sand. The first iteration of the roller was created for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2016 by Juan Gelez and Delia Rivera of Joint Studio and used on South Beach during April 2016. The excerpt is from Miami-born poet Donald Justice's poem, "Self-Portrait as Still Life" and reads, "Mañana? Always Mañana." (You can find the poem in his Collected Poems, published by Knopf, and for more on Donald Justice, visit donaldjustice.org.)

O, Miami is principally-funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Fabrication assistance was generously provided by Moonlighter Maker Space and Deft Union.

Additional support for the project was provided by The City of Miami Beach, The State of Florida's Culture Builds Florida Alliance, and with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.

Videography by Gesi Schilling
Titles and editing by P. Scott Cunningham

Checkout Poems: Poems in supermarket checkout lanes
O, Miami Poetry Festival 2017
A partnership with Sabor Tropical

Checkout Poems placed short poems by 3rd and 4th grade students on the checkout belts at Sabor Tropical supermarket in Miami. Designed by Alana Burman, the project was made possible through support by The Children’s Trust of Miami-Dade. Poems were displayed in the three most commonly used languages in the market: English, Spanish, and Creole. The students who wrote the poems attend Poinciana Park and Orchard Villa elementary schools and are participants in The Sunroom, O, Miami’s in-school poetry education program. They wrote the poems in response to prompts about food.

O, Miami is principally-funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The Sunroom is funded by The Children’s Trust, a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County, and with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and Culture Builds Florida.

Poets:

Thomas Brashears, Orchard Villa, 4th grade
Ashley Robledo, Orchard Villa, 4th grade
Quanya Ponder, Orchard Villa, 4th grade
Michelle Harden, Orchard Villa, 4th grade

Project conceived by Alana Burman
Production by O, Miami
Videography by Jorge Graupera and Gesi Schilling
Editing by P. Scott Cunningham
Titles by Noah Levy
Footer title by Topos Graphics

O, Miami is proudly supported by Knight Foundation, Miami-Dade County, the City of Miami Beach, Culture Builds Florida, The Children’s Trust, and The Miami Foundation.

O, Miami Poetry Festival 2017
A partnership with the Department of Transportation and Public Works of Miami-Dade
Project created by Joe Eisenberg

O, Miami and the Department of Transportation and Public Works present poetry on Metro Rail and Bus Easy Tickets. Every day in April, single-rider "Easy" MetroRail Ticket in Miami featured an original English-language poem by Sarah Trudgeon, alongside translations by Quinn Smith (Spanish) and Fabienne Sylvia Josephat (Creole). The ticket was designed by Seth Labenz of Topos Graphics in a distinctive yellow color that matched our bus project, happening concurrently. 100,000 tickets were made and distributed, and the poems were also featured during April on the Miami-Dade Transit Tracker app. 

O, Miami is principally-funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

This project is presented with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and Culture Builds Florida.

Videography by Jorge Graupera & Gesi Schilling
Edited by P. Scott Cunningham

O, Miami Poetry Festival and the Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works partnered in 2017 to cover an entire county bus with twelve poems by 3rd and 4th grade students. The poems were written as part of O, Miami's Sunroom educational program at Poinciana Park and Orchard Villa elementary schools.

O, Miami is principally-funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

The Sunroom is funded by The Children’s Trust, a dedicated source of revenue established by voter referendum to improve the lives of children and families in Miami-Dade County, and with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and Culture Builds Florida.

The partnership was facilitated by The New Tropic and Prism Creative Group.

Additional support provided by Culture Builds Florida.

The project was part of the Poetry Coalition's nationwide suite of programming titled, "Because We Come From Everywhere: Poetry & Migration." #WeComeFromEverything #omiami

Videography by Jorge Graupera
Edited by P. Scott Cunningham

Levis on the Lawn
Co-created with Yo Amo 305
O, Miami Poetry Festival 2016

Yo Amo 305 teamed up with O, Miami to transform eight excerpts from the American poet Larry Levis (1946 - 1996) into “campaign-style” lawn signs. 500+ hundred signs were distributed around Miami via guerilla placement and voluntary adoption. Each excerpt was chosen by O, Miami. Yo Amo 305 designed the signs, manufactured them, and spearheaded the distribution. The purpose of the project was to take a forum for familiarizing voters with the name of a politician—lawn signs—and use it to familiarize Miamians with the work of a “forgotten” American master of poetry, the late Larry Levis. To read more of Levis’s work, search his name at poets.org or poetryfoundation.org and purchase his books from Graywolf Press.

O, Miami is principally-funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Addition support from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and Culture Builds Florida.

Editing by P. Scott Cunningham
Videography by Yo Amo 305
Titles by Noah Levy
Backend footer by Topos Graphics

Unscripted: Bal Harbour and O, Miami Present
Post Haste: Four Site-specific Poems
Created by Seth Labenz, Melody Santiago Cummings, and P. Scott Cunningham
On view June 1 - October 31, 2017 at the Bal Harbour Beachwalk

Post Haste is a series of four visual poems created by O, Miami for Bal Harbour's beachwalk. Inspired by pre-war marketing for the Burma Shave Company - famous for its advertising campaigns featuring humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway signs - the poems are presented according to the speed of the beachwalk's usage as a thoroughfare for biking, jogging, and walking. Each poem is divided into six signs and is designed to be read in one continuous pass and one direction, though all four poems are also in conversation with each other. The project is part of O, Miami's larger mission for every single person in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem. For more about O, Miami, visit omiami.org.

For more about Bal Harbour's Unscripted art series, visit balharbourflorida.com/unscripted and follow them at @unscriptedbalharbour

Haircut for a Poem
A project for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2016
Created by Sonya Clark
Supported by Knight Foundation, National YoungArts Foundation, State of Florida Culture Builds Florida, Miami Dade County

Artist Sonya Clark visited Miami barbershops in Miami during April 2016 with a simple proposal of exchange: recite a poem – get a free haircut. Patrons read Calvin Hernton’s “The Distant Drum” at two participating barbershops: Bless the Lord Barbershop in Little Haiti and Just Right Barbershop in Overtown.

The goal of O, Miami Poetry Festival is for every single person in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem during the month of April.

Edited by P. Scott Cunningham
Videography by Gesi Schilling, Zain Aslam, and Christina Frigo
Animation by Topos Graphics

Poetry Today
A project for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2016

Created by artist Sandra March, Poetry Today was a daily newspaper featuring poetry written by Miami residents about their neighborhoods. Each issue featured a different Miami neighborhood and was hand-distributed during the month of April 2016 primarily in the neighborhood of West Kendall and in downtown Miami. The paper delivery man was “Nicey Jones,” an old-time Brooklyn newsie invented by performance artist Randy Garcia. Nicey handed out over 12,000 copies of the paper, going door-to-door as well as encountering people on the street. Each issue of the paper was designed and illustrated by artist Sandra March, with some additional illustrations by Caroline Castro. Overall, 98 Miami poets contributed 104 total poems.

Videography by Gesi Schilling
Edited by P. Scott Cunningham

A Project for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2016
Created by Benjy Caplan and Evan Marcus
Sponsored by Knight Foundation and Delivery Dudes Midtown

During April 2016, every food delivery made by Miami’s Delivery Dudes Midtown had a special treat inside: an original poetry fortune cookie. The poems in the cookies were adapted from Frank O’Hara’s poem, “Lines for the Fortune Cookies” into short poems with Miami themes. (For example, O’Hara’s line, “You may be a hit uptown, but downtown you're legendary!” became “You may be a hit in Wynwood, but in Hialeah you’re legendary!”)

The project was submitted to the festival by Benjy Caplan and executed by Evan Marcus from Delivery Dudes Midtown. Several thousand cookies were distributed. No word yet on how many fortunes came true.

GoPro Footage by Evan Marcus
Edited by Scott Cunningham
Song: Schoolgirl Hitchikers by Pierre Raph

The goal of O, Miami is for every single person in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem. Founded in 2011 with principal funding and creative support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, O, Miami is an annual festival that occurs in multiple locations for the duration of the month of April. This video features footage taken from the first four festivals.

The Sun Like a Big Dark Animal (El Sol Como un Gran Animal Oscuro)

Directed by: Christina Felisgrau and Ronnie Rivera
Story by: Bernardo Britto and Ronnie Rivera
Produced by: Dennis Scholl, P. Scott Cunningham, Lucas Leyva and Ronnie Rivera
Executuive Producer: Jillian Mayer and Tom Brown
Art and Animation by: Christina Felisgrau and Ronnie Rivera
Voice by: Agustina Woodgate
Music by: Otto von Schirach and Nayib Estefan
Associate producer: Nicole Chipi
Voice recorded by Greg Alvarez

Commision by O, Miami
Inspired by the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik

Murinals: Poems on Urinals
A project for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2015
Created by Ian Thomas
Made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Using traditional gold-leafing techniques, artist Ian Thomas paints excerpts of contemporary poems on urinals in Miami area men’s bathrooms as part of O, Miami Poetry Festival 2015. The excerpts are from poems by female and/or gay poets: Alejandra Pizarnik, Frank Bidart, Anne Carson, Elizabeth Bishop, Natasha Tretheway, Mary Oliver, and Patricia Lockwood. The murinals were installed at Versailles Miami, Magnum Lounge, The Wolfsonian-FIU, History Miami, The Bass Museum, The Vagabond Hotel, Finka Table and Tap, Miami Beach Golf Club, Olympia Theater at the Gusman Center, and Books & Books Independent Bookstore. For a guide to the murinals and their locations, visit omiami.org/murinal-guide/. The purpose of O, Miami is for every single person in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem during the month of April.

Directed by P. Scott Cunningham
Videography by Jorge Gonzalez Graupera & Gesi Schilling
Edited by P. Scott Cunningham & Gesi Schilling
Titles by Topos Graphics

Secret Sonnets
A project for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2015
Created by Conner Grey and Emily Nostro
Made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

In 2013, Connor Grey lost his eyesight to a gunshot wound. For O, Miami Poetry Festival 2015, he and his teacher Emily Nostro created “Secret Sonnets,” a project that collected poems from citizens in Miami-Dade County, translated them into Braille, and then mailed them back to the addresses provided by the poets, along with a “cheat sheet” guide to reading Braille. O, Miami helped Grey and Nostro solicit and collect the poems, and then the poems were transcribed by students at South Plantation High School under the guidance of Grey and Nostro.

Directed by P. Scott Cunningham
Videography by Jorge Gonzalez Graupera & Gesi Schilling
Edited by P. Scott Cunningham & Gesi Schilling
Titles by Topos Graphics

Additional thanks to South Plantation High School

Powers to the People
A poetry mural by Stephen “ESPO” Powers
Created by Stephen Powers on The Betsy-South Beach Hotel for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2015
Made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

O, Miami commissioned artist Stephen Powers to create a “poetry mural” on the side of the historic Betsy-South Beach Hotel. During the month of April 2015, Powers used the people and culture of Miami Beach and the work of festival poets such as Campbell McGrath and Major Jackson as inspiration for a wall of text-and-image that brightened up a pedestrian thoroughfare between Collins and Ocean avenues. For more on O, Miami, visit omiami.org. To see more work by Stephen Powers, visit firstandfifteenth.net.

Directed by P. Scott Cunningham
Videography by Jorge Gonzalez Graupera & Gesi Schilling
Edited by P. Scott Cunningham & Gesi Schilling
Titles by Topos Graphics

The Sunroom, a program created by O, Miami Poetry Festival, pays poets to teach workshops in communities where high-quality creative writing instruction is not guaranteed. Currently, the program provides instruction to 40-50 students in the 3rd and 4th grade at Poinciana Park and Orchard Villa elementary schools in Liberty City. In addition, the program places poets in four different area detention centers in partnership with Exchange-for-Change. The leader of the Sunroom program is educator Laurel Nakanishi. All Sunroom programs take place in South Florida, with the vast majority in Miami-Dade County. For more on the program or to donate, visit omiami.org/sunroom-poetry/.

Directed & Edited by P. Scott Cunningham
Videography by Jorge Gonzalez Graupera
Titles by Topos Graphics
Featuring U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and the wonderful staff and students at Poinciana Park Elementary School

Poetry Pops
A project for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2015
Created by Randy Burman & Eccolo Pops
Made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

“Poetry Pops” are popsicles, made by Eccolo Pops, with original poetry wrappers. Created by artist Randy Burman, the project featured 40 different poems written by South Florida residents who responded to an open call. The pops were free and were distributed by an ice cream man named “Shel Shiverstein,” a character played and invented by actor Randy Garcia. Shiverstein attended events all over Miami-Dade County during April 2015, ultimately distributing 1,700 poetry popsicles. The popsicles themselves were generously donated by Eccolo Pops.

Directed by P. Scott Cunningham
Videography by Jorge Gonzalez Graupera & Gesi Schilling
Edited by P. Scott Cunningham & Gesi Schilling
Titles by Topos Graphics

"Scratch-Off Poems" is a project from O, Miami 2014 co-created by artist Agustina Woodgate and poet Mary Ruefle. Woodgate made two scratch-off lottery ticket designs that incorporated an original poem commissioned from Mary Ruefle. During April 2014, 2500 of these tickets were distributed around Miami-Dade County via local businesses and events.

How it worked: Using a penny or a fingernail, participants scratched off the missing pieces in the words of the poem. If those words matched the words at the top of the ticket, s/he won an O, Miami t-shirt with a poem sewn inside. 1 out of 100 tickets was a winner.

Nite Life
A project for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2015
Created by Martine Syms
Made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

“Nite Life” is inspired by Sam Cooke’s Live at the Harlem Square Club, a live-album recorded in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood in 1963 but not widely released until 1985. Cutting and pasting the “between song” dialogue of Cooke and his audience, artist Martine Syms created an original poetic text that was installed on wind screens in Miami’s Design District in April/May 2015 as part of the annual O, Miami Poetry Festival (omiami.org).

Directed by P. Scott Cunningham
Videography by Jorge Gonzalez Graupera & Gesi Schilling
Edited by P. Scott Cunningham & Gesi Schilling
Titles by Topos Graphics

Additional thanks to Miami’s Design District, ICA Miami, and The Betsy-South Beach Hotel.

“My Soul’s Shadow” by Manual Cinema
Based on the life and work of Federico García Lorca
Commissioned by O, Miami Poetry Festival 2015
Made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

“My Soul’s Shadow,” an original performance by Chicago-based cinematic shadow puppetry collective Manual Cinema, debuted at O, Miami Poetry Festival in April 2015 at an indoor-outdoor warehouse space generously donated by Little River // Miami. With original music composed by Kyle Vegter and performed by Nu Deco Orchestra, the performance blended the poetry of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca with lyricized episodes of Lorca’s life. For more on Manual Cinema, visit manualcinema.com.

Directed by P. Scott Cunningham
Videography by Jorge Gonzalez Graupera & Gesi Schilling
Edited by P. Scott Cunningham & Gesi Schilling
Titles by Topos Graphics

Thank you to Little River // Miami, Nu Deco Orchestra, Box Elder Miami, and Whole Foods Miami.

"The Last Ride of José Martí" was a project created by O, Miami 2014 as an homage to the continued significance of the life and work of the Cuban poet José Martí. On April 22, 2014, actor Ivan Lopez—dressed as Martí—rode down Calle Ocho on the back of a white horse and distributed roses outfitted with Martí poems. Martí first made a quick stop at Versailles for a cafecito, then traveled down the heart of Calle Ocho on horseback, and finally gave a reading in front of the Martí memorial on SW 13th Avenue.

This project made possible through the support of Miami-Dade County and Power2Give.

In April 2014, O, Miami and Gramps Bar teamed up to create, "Poet-in-Decadence," a different kind of writer's residency. Thirty Miami poets each received a one-night residency on the last stool at Gramps Bar. In exchange for poems written on cocktail napkins, the poets were given free beer.

Participating poets: Travis Cohen, Kevin Gonzalez, Robby Ramos, Brian Deutzman, Kelly Webner, Julia Arredondo, Nathan Laxague, Abel Folgar, Segovia Pagan, Rob Goyanes, Nick Mencia, Justin L. Mangana, Erica Sheldon, Carolina Souto, Juan Miranda, Jonathan Rose, Ily Goyanes, Brian Fernandez, Ariel Francisco, Oscar Fuentes, Manny Saints, Errol Portman, Christina Frigo, Brookhart Jonquil, Katie Loffredo, Paul Christiansen, Jaswinder Bolina, Amy Arce, Kacee Belcher, and Nathaniel Sandler.

"My Miami," an original collaborative poem written and performed by Mrs. Finch's 3rd Grade Class at Orchard Villa Elementary in Liberty City, Miami, FL, as part of the 2015 O, Miami Poetry Festival.

The poem was created from an 8-session poetry workshop conducted by Poet Laurel Nakanishi as part of O, Miami's mission to reach every single person in Miami-Dade County with a poem during the month of April.

Video by Victor On-Sung.

WPBT's Art Loft covers O, Miami's 2015 presentation of Manual Cinema's My Soul's Shadow.

O, Miami commissioned the Chicago-based shadow puppet theater company to create a new work based on the poetry of Federico García Lorca. The result was My Soul's Shadow, a site-specific theatrical experience in Little River Miami with original music composed by Kyle Vegter and performed by Miami's own Nu Deco Ensemble.

Excerpts from NOX, presented by O, Miami Poetry Festival at the Moore Building in Miami's Design District, April 7, 2011.Text by Anne Carson, Choreography by Rashaun Mitchell in collaboration with Silas Riener. Sound by Ben Miller. Lighting and Production Design by Davison Scandrett. Performed by Anne Carson, Robert Currie, Ben Miller, Rashaun Mitchell, and Silas Riener. Video by Raul de la Cruz.

NOX was produced by the O, Miami Poetry Festival with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

omiami.org

Poetic Injustice is a film by Giancarlo Loffredo that creatively documents "The Department of Poetry Works," a project by artist Randy Burman for O, Miami. "The Department of Poetry Works" placed 151 street signs across Miami-Dade County during the month of April 2014. Each sign displayed one of eight original poems written by Miami writers and artists specifically for the project.

Poetry Pirates
A project for O, Miami Poetry Festival 2015
Created by Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares
Made possible by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

On Saturday, April 18, 2015, artists Antonia Wright and Ruben Millares organized 35 fellow artists to dress as pirates and mermaids and recite Walt Whitman’s “After the Sea Ship” to passing boats on the Miami River. Using bullhorns and grouping on the shore, on rafts, and in small craft vessels, the “Poetry Pirates” entertained, delighted, and confused Miami citizens.

Directed by P. Scott Cunningham
Videography by Jorge Gonzalez Graupera & Javier Sanchez
Edited by P. Scott Cunningham & Gesi Schilling
Titles by Topos Graphics

O, Miami is an annual poetry festival, sponsored by Knight Foundation, with the mission of every single person in Miami-Dade County encountering a poem during the month of April. For more, visit omiami.org/

TASTE was a dance and poetry performance at Bas Fisher Invitational created by choreographers Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Reiner, poet/critic Claudia La Rocco, and production designer Davison Scandrett. Commissioned by O, Miami 2013, TASTE was a piece-in-progress that later gave birth to WAY IN, which debuted at Danspace Project in New York in November 2013. 

Poet Dave Landsberger reads "History Fair" from the Poetry Ferrari as part of O, Miami 2011. Landsberger launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to rent a Ferrari Spider and drive around Miami and Miami Beach for an entire day reading poetry out of the Ferrari with a bullhorn. This video was taken by Tess Knoebel on Lincoln Road.

"Miami Proper" is a performance and documentation of a bilingual radio broadcast of Juan Gelman's "The Poems of Sidney West" throughout the streets of Miami, Florida. Utilizing an FM transmitter made mobile via the artist's truck, Jordan Marty embarked on a course beyond the physical footprint of O, Miami's Edgewater Poetry & Athletics Club, disseminating the text of a fictional American cowboy's laments - albeit fleetingly - to those within the city proper. Read by P. Scott Cunningham and Jose Villar-Portella.

jordanmarty.com 

Billy Collins reads "The Revenant" as part of the O, Miami Visiting Poet Series. April 1, 2012. Miami Beach Community Church.

Artist Randy Burman talks to poet Mia Leonin about his 2014 O, Miami project, "The Department of Poetry Works" - a temporary, unofficial bureaucratic entity in Miami-Dade County that distributed poems in a unique way.

Video by Carlos Ochoa.

For O, Miami 2014, artist/writer Elena Errazuriz invited pedestrians to read "This Is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams. Setting up on a busy downtown corner adjacent to Miami-Dade College, Errazuriz gave each person the poem and recorded his or her readings and reactions.

Film directed by Elena Errazuriz.