Plastic Poetry 021
O, Miami
In June 2025, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their 23rd poem 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. The text was written by Valerie Vargas and is an excerpt from her piece in Waterproof, “A House in a Hurricane.”
The five-inch letters are rendered in 14.8 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from from various community cleanups & collection groups found throughout Miami-Dade County.
O, Miami’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
O, MIAMI’S SUNROOM PROGRAM: 2024-25
Plastic Recycled: 14.8 lbs
A HOUSE IN A HURRICANE
BY VALERIE VARGAS
IF MIAMI GOES,
TAKE ME WITH HER.
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.
