Knight Foundation

What if poetry wasn’t something you sought out — but something that found you? On a fruit sticker. On a sandwich wrapper. Stamped into freshly poured concrete. Broadcast on the radio during your morning commute. That’s the world O, Miami has been building since 2011.

Swipe through to hear from two of the brilliant minds behind it all: Melody Santiago Cummings (Executive Director) and Caroline Cabrera (Artistic Director), who have spent over a decade bringing poetry to every nook and cranny of Miami.

Since their founding, O, Miami has produced 875 events, collected more than 42,000 poems, served 2,755 Miami-Dade County students, and published 30 titles. In 2025 alone, they held 150+ events in four languages, placed 9,000 poetry fruit stickers on produce across the city, and installed 410 linear feet of poetry fences throughout Miami.

Their mission? To ensure that every single person in Miami encounters a poem during National Poetry Month. And somehow, impossibly, they pull it off — every year.

Read the full story at the link in bio.

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