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With over 50 projects and events spanning Miami-Dade County and Broward, the 2026 O, Miami poetry nonprofit festival is set to highlight the region as a living poem, full of surprise encounters and acts of collective imagination.
Words by Hunter Arango | March 28, 2026 | Lifestyle

For its landmark 15th Anniversary, the public will come across poetic pigeons in flight, poems written in water on sidewalks, and poems read as basketball play calls or hidden in the classified ads. There is also a full moon party, a literacy circus and even a quinceñera to celebrate the festival’s birthday. “Poetry belongs to everyone, everywhere,” says O, Miami Co-Executive Director Melody Santiago Cummings. “Poetic surprises aim to spark joy and invite residents to see themselves reflected in their neighborhoods.”; OMiami.org.