Meanwhile somewhere in Belle Meade another poem on the street. They’re out there waiting to be discovered, a chance encounter with literature 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.
THOU SHALL NOT YIELD Poem: Messiah Hagood-Barnes Location: Design District, Miami
Max Rothman’s I TOO SEEK DIRECTION poignant poem makes an appearance in Wynwood near The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse. Want to Continue reading
Papa told Willie, “You’ll ruin my home You and that hand jive have got to go” Willie told Papa, “Don’t Continue reading
Joshua Landsman’s poem, $50 FINE FOR FAILURE TO READ THIS SIGN, caused one person walking by just as installation was completed Continue reading
Annette Wells’ whimsical poem, Egrets Regret. Annette along with Michael Hettich, co-chaired the Wolfson Campus art and literature magazine, Metromorphosis. Location: Continue reading
Lucas Leyva’s poem, If I Had Another Pole I’d Walk Away, apparently has other designs, if only it could escape Continue reading
Until Further Notice Never Poem: Jim Drain Location: Rubell Family Collection
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