April 5th, 2014

440 people showed up to Soundscape Park in Miami Beach on April 5, 2014 to watch a live "Wallcast" of Robert Hass and Nikky Finney reading on the side of the New World Center building.

Commissioned by O, Miami and created by choreographers/dancers Rashaun Mitchell & Silas Reiner, poet Claudia La Rocco, and production designer Davison Scandrett. 

Original O, Miami t-shirt created for Vampire Weekend drummer Chris Tomson for two shows at The Fillmore Miami Beach, April 30 & May 1, 2014.

2500 scratch-off lottery tickets designed by artist Agustina Woodgate were distributed around Miami-Dade County in April 2014. The tickets featured an original poem by Mary Ruefle.

Poet Tom Healy gets an "O," tattoo while reading at O, Miami 2013.

In 2011 and 2013, O, Miami commissioned poems to be flown behind airplanes over Miami Beach.

Cuban collective Omni-ZonaFranca performs at the Pérez Art Museum of Miami, April 2014

On April 22, 2014, actor Ivan Lopez dressed as Cuban poet José Martí and rode down Calle Ocho on a white horse as volunteers distributed 250 white roses to spectators.

Billboard on 79th Street with an original poem by Todd Boss. O, Miami 2014.

Poet Paul Christensen created six different original drink coasters for O, Miami 2013. Each coaster had a poem in English on one side and a poem in Spanish on the other.

Poet Dave Landsberger rented a Ferrari in 2011 and drove around Miami for one day reading poems out of a bull horn.

In 2013, we partnered with WLRN-Miami Herald News to collect poems that began or ended with the phrase "That's So Miami." 

An Easter day basketball tournament created in collaboration with Borscht Corp., who screened a series of short films based on poems inside the adjacent house.

During the music festival Sweatstock in 2011, O, Miami dropped fully-biodegradable poems from a helicopter onto the crowd below. 

Choreographer Jonah Bokaer and poet Anne Carson created a new version of their collaborative performance, STACKS, inside The Moore Building in Miami's Design District. O, Miami 2011.

We kicked off O, Miami 2011 with a traditional Cuban pig roast. The guest of honor was poet Tracy K. Smith, who presented the first public reading of her book, Life on Mars, which went on to win the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Some beautiful soul wrote this poem in the Churchill's Pub women's bathroom in 2011.

U.S. Poet Laureate W.S. Merwin gets a standing ovation at O, Miami 2011.

Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Reiner dancing around traffic on N.E. 11th St. during O, Miami 2013.

One of 100 Lamppost banners we hung in Miami during O, Miami 2013.

Inspired by the Poets' Parade in Granada, Nicaragua, we produced the Poetry is Dead parade in 2013, with performances by dead poets José Marti, John Keats, Silvia Plath, Walt Whitman, and more.

The airplane poems in 2013 were chosen from an open call for 50-character poems in Miami-Dade County

A student at Overtown Youth Center writing a poem during a workshop we conducted in 2013.

A crowd of 500+ gathered at New World Symphony for a free overview of the history of collaborations between poets and composers. 

Our host hotel and collaborative partner The Betsy-South Beach. For more on how the hotel incorporates poetry into their philanthropic mission, click here.

Miami writer Christina Frigo created fake parking tickets with poems on them for the 2013 festival.

Local activist and programmer Rebekah Monson at one of our 2013 events. Her hair, and our photographer Gesi Schilling, are both amazing.

In 2013, we brought manual typewriters to locations all over South Florida in order to collect poems about Miami.

Miami poets did a one-day residency in Fairchild Tropical & Botanic Gardens. Fairchild "planted" the poems in the exact places where they were written. The exhibit was displayed in April 2011.

Bassist & singer Maggie Hasspacher presenting new arrangements of poems in 2013.

O, Miami's resident designer, Flying Pyramids, made gigantic background projections for our final night reading in 2013.

Edible South Florida curated a daily chalkboard poem in downtown Miami in 2013.

A woman keeps her feet from getting wet at our 2013 outreach at the Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop.

"Gone", a poem written by Miami high school student Katie Brockway, was featured on air freshners placed in all Miami Car2Go cars in April 2013.

PEN Open Award-winner Kevin Young reading at The Broken Shaker in 2013.

A young Miamian displays the poem he wrote as part of Miami Art Museum's 2013 O, Miami ekphrasis workshops.

This woman gave us a poem she wrote entirely in her head at an event in 2013 at famous Miami juice bar El Palacio de los Jugos.

A month-long exhibition curated by art micro-magazine Abe's Penny that invited the audience to write poems about four different sets of photos. One set of poems was chosen to run in the magazine alongside the photos.

Flyer designed by Jacuzzi Boys frontman Gabriel Alcala for our Miami Book Fair after-party for Patti Smith in 2010.

Our inaugural tote bag, beautifully modified.

A Miami-Dade County judge hosting a poetry reading in her courtroom during O, Miami 2011.

Our 2013 festival tote bag was inspired by Miami-born poet Donald Justice and invited the owner to write where he or she was going to die. This security guard chose Ultra. 

Poet Malachi Black reads at New World Symphony with his poem projected behind him.

Artist Agustina Woodgate sews poems into random pieces of clothing during O, Miami 2011. To watch the video, go to our Vimeo page.

It's good.

Poet Melissa Broder opening up for Billy Collins in 2012.

Search the hashtag #thatsomiami on Instagram for some of the "visual poems" Miamians submitted to us in 2013

After his book signing at O, Miami 2011

Backside of another modified 2011 Tote Bag

A new arrangement of NOX, a collaborative dance & poetry performance by Rashaun Mitchell, Silas Reiner and Anne Carson, presented in 2011.

Live performance at O, Miami 2013 by young Miami spoken-word artists Maxis Made and Diego Mosquera

The 2014 O, Miami tote bag, with a vague reference to the weather.

Local Miami poet Jonathan Rose holds a few of his original limericks for our closing night party, April 2014

The maps for the first-ever Lit Crawl Miami on April 25, 2014, kicked off by Russell Banks and Chase Twichell at The Betsy-South Beach