National Poetry Month

The city of Miami gives off a rhythm and sound all its own. It comes from years of Caribbean and Latin American cultures tumbling into each other. Every April, during National Poetry Month, the O, Miami poetry festival uses poetry as a loudspeaker for what locals love about the city.

The first-ever National Poetry Month Festival at Riviera Beach City Marina aims to help people find solace during the pandemic.

On this Monday, April 27, episode of Sundial:When Should Florida Reopen? Florida is experiencing a bit of an identity crisis. From Jacksonville to…

Tuesday is the last day of April and that means the end of National Poetry Month. Here in South Florida we’ve been marking this month with your five-lined…

Miami is the backyard of the Caribbean and it’s National Poetry Month, so naturally there’s a convening that will blend South Florida’s Caribbean roots…

Richard Blanco is coming home. Wherever that is. What the poet has learned -- as the son of Cuban exiles growing up in Miami, then wandering, traveling…

It’s National Poetry month and O, Miami has a series of events planned around the county to celebrate the art form.For eight years, the O, Miami Poetry…

South Florida is known for welcoming those fleeing economic and political strife in their homeland. Cubans, Venezuelans and Haitians arrive to an already…

Who says this is not a town of foodies? Poets of all ages answered WLRN and O,Miami's call and submitted 595 Edible Odes to the foods that make South…

April is coming and that means poetry. We recently talked with founder and director of O, Miami, Scott Cunningham, about this year’s upcoming festival.…

Elementary students in Liberty City are getting lessons from a professional poet through the O, Miami poetry festival.For four weeks students at Orchard…

Secret Sonnets is an O, Miami poetry festival project that translates poems into braille.The author sends a poem to South Plantation High School student…