Dept. of Poetry Works

DEPARTMENT OF POETRY WORKS (DPW) – Created by artist/graphic designer Randy Burman in collaboration with a number of poets, both local and not. The Department of Poetry Works is a temporary, unofficial, bureaucratic entity in Miami-Dade County with the task of repairing, maintaining, and updating public instances of poetry. Throughout April, Department of Poetry Works employees will be dispersed throughout all twenty-one areas of the county, searching for poems that have been neglected and/or hidden by overgrowth, development, expansion, or declension. When they find such poems, DPW employees will return the poem to its original state, or, if the poem is broken beyond repair, rewrite it into the Miami landscape. Produced by O, Miami for the O, Miami Poetry Festival, whose mission is for every single person in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem during the month of April.

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Poetry is here! (Where Robert is.) Thank you Farmer Margie and the accomplices at Bee Heaven Farm for taking time Continue reading →

Let’s see, where was I? VIDEO

It’s been over a month since the Poetry Festival ended. Department of Poetry Works (DPW) employees have returned to their Continue reading →

Islanders rejoice! Not only are there plenty of bike trails and bike path options on Key Biscayne, now, thanks to a Continue reading →

This poetry traffic sign probably lasted about 2 seconds in front of Panther Coffee in Wynwood. People ask, “Do you Continue reading →

HEY! Just found this photo on Instagram. Edgewater Athletic & Poetry Club Want to see more DPW signs? See that Continue reading →

There is always a buzz in the air on S.W. Eighth Street in the heart of Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood. This sign Continue reading →

A chance encounter on Ponce de Leon Boulevard near Coral Gables. Want to see more DPW signs? See that little black Continue reading →

Poetic Injustice VIDEO

Giancarlo Loffredo’s VIDEO depiction of what some of the more renegade Department of Poetry Works employees have to deal with on Continue reading →

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