Plastic Poetry 001
Miami Norland Senior High School
In April 2021, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their first in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry. Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that mashes up an educational workshop on the realities of recycling and plastic pollution with community/beach cleanups, public art, and poetry.
Located inside Miami Norland Senior High School is an installation of a poem that was written in a collaborative writing workshop with the school’s students. The five-inch tall polypropylene letters are rendered in 7.8 pounds of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from a community cleanup held at the school on March 26, 2021.
Miami Norland Senior High School’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
Online Workshop: March 22-23, 2021
Workshop Participants: 150
Community Cleanup: March 26, 2021
Cleanup Participants: 5
Pollution Collected: 31 lbs
Plastic Reclaimed: 25.7 lbs
Plastic Recycled: 7.76 lbs
Untitled
BY MIAMI NORLAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
I WILL BE COMFORTABLE
IN THE SKIN I WAS BORN IN
AND WALTZ INTO ANY ROOM
AND BE WHO I AM
HARMONIZED
WITH MY HERITAGE
Miami Norland Senior High School participated in the O, Miami Poetry Festival. Every April, with principal funding provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, O, Miami produces the O, Miami Poetry Festival, a month-long initiative with the mission of every single person in Miami-Dade County encountering a poem. Learn more at O, Miami.
