Rusty Simpson’s poem belongs on the street. Although, in all fairness, and honesty, Rusty called after he received my letter of 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.
Very proud of this particular poem as it was written and submitted by my daughter, Alana Eve Burman. I was Continue reading
You Turn Up in the Strangest Places The word “places” was transposed from “spaces”, a reference to parking spaces, in R. Continue reading
Llevar mi guyabera para una intervención de la Pequeña Habana. Wearing my guyabera for an intervention in Little Havana. Poem: Continue reading
If you knew Jeffrey Knapp, the poet who wrote this poem, you know how incredibly special this picture is.
Ok, first one up
Suddenly I heard a familiar voice… I walked up to this sign post and began the installation when suddenly I Continue reading
Poetry Traffic Signs Sample #7
Funny story, this is actually the second poem I wrote when I was writing the proposal, and which I included Continue reading
Poetry Traffic Signs Sample #6
Okay, I cannot remember where I got this. It may have been from a longer poem. Or a story, or Continue reading
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