Downtown Miami Poem: Rusty Simpson Photo: Steven D Morse
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.
I dream awake (from Ismaelillo) Day and night I always dream with open eyes And on top of the foaming Continue reading
Department of Poetry Works employee intervening into a normal situation to turn it, if momentarily, into a literary experience and hopefully stimulate Continue reading
Little Haiti. Lots of Love. Elisha Masemann, writing about Urban Interventions and Molecular Flows in Drain magazine stated: “The underlying premise Continue reading
Señor, señor, can you tell me where we’re headin’? Lincoln Road or Armageddon? Seems like I been down this way before Continue reading
Crandon Park Trail _________________ CHECK LIST _________________ Beach – check Wind-surfing – check Biking – check Park nearby to see Continue reading
Historically, the area today known as the Design District was originally known as Buena Vista. Signs with the name Buena Continue reading
Miami-Dade County Jail Release Center C’mon… if you were getting released from jail wouldn’t you want someone there waiting for Continue reading
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