The Department of Poetry Works supports the goal of O, Miami of having every person in Miami-Dade County encounter a poem during April, Continue reading
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.
Near Viscaya in Coconut Grove, ironically installed underneath a sign so bleached by the Florida sun as to be totally Continue reading
A message to those who want to move this cultural institution from North Miami? Poem: Messiah Hagood-Barnes
“All good art is an indiscretion.” – Tennessee Williams In 2 ft. high letters on a huge fence wrap sign across Continue reading
I, Too, Seek Direction: Randy Burman’s Department of Poetry Works
Street Poetry by DPW
Tip o’ the hard hat to my homies over at Pork Belly Times for their write-up and photo essay. Hope Continue reading
Spotted near the Fountainhead Residency in Morningside neighborhood of Miami And since it’s called the Fountainhead Residency: Thousands of years Continue reading
The Vagabond Give to me the life I love, Let the lave go by me, Give the jolly heaven above Continue reading
