Plastic Poetry 022.1-3
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
In June 2025, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their 24th exhibition in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry.
Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that blends recycling plastic, plastic pollution, beach cleanups, public art, and poetry. Three poems, written in three languages, were installed on the facade of MOCA NoMi. When united as a singular expression, the texts by Angela Delgado, Jennifer Kramer, and previous MOCA Teen Art Force student Rebeca Lugo Carrillo show how poetry can foster a communal discourse on space, people, and individuals.
The five-inch letters are rendered in 49.78 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from from various community cleanups & collection groups found throughout Miami-Dade County.
MOCA NoMi’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
POETRY ON THE PLAZA: 2024-25
Participants: 62
Plastic Recycled: 49.78 lbs
SOUFLE, EXHALES, EXHALA
BY JENNIFER KRAMER
NOMI EXHALES A
HUSTLING BUSTLING DIVERSITY
SOON
HEAVY MANGO TREES WILL DROP JUICY
JEWELS
FEEL, SIENTO, SANTI
BY ANGELA DELGADO
I FEEL LIKE
I COULD STRETCH
OUT
MY ARMS AND HUG THIS CITY
EXISTO, EGZISTE, EXIST
BY REBECA LUGO CARRILLO
YO SOY UNA CARACOLA
VIVI DEBAJOS LAS OLAS Y EL MAR
SOY LAS ESTRELLAS
QUE BRILLAN BAJO EL AGUA
Y LAS DECORACIONES DEL PROFUNDO AZUL
EN LA ARENA , EN LAS ALGAS, EN LAS CASES
YO ESTOY YRAYENDO EL MAR A DONDE VAYA
EXISTO EN MONOTONES
PERO CADA PARTE DE MI ES ESPECIAL
PEQUENA O GRANDE, ME ENCANTA VIVIR
EN EL MAE, EN LA ARENA, EN LAS MANOS
YO SOY LS ESTRELLAS BAJO EL MAR
Plastic Poetry is a project of O, Miami and Free Plastic in partnership with Orchard Villa Elementary School and is made possible with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; The Children’s Trust; The Jorge M. Pérez Family Foundation | Crearte; The Miami Foundation; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at O, Miami.
