Plastic Poetry 015.1 & 015.2
Nautilus Middle School
In May 2024, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their 17th & 18th poem in a series of public art works entitled Plastic Poetry.
Plastic Poetry is a series of community activations that blends recycling plastics, plastic pollution, beach cleanups, public art, and poetry. The text was written Victoria & Maikel, students from from Ms. Monclus’s class at Nautilus Middle School commissioned by O, Miami.
The five-inch letters are rendered in 5.38 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups held throughout Miami-Dade County in 2023.
Nautilus Middle School’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
O, MIAMI’S STEAM PROGRAM: 2023-24
Participants: 27
Plastic Recycled: 5.38 lbs
UNTITLED
BY MS. MONCLUS’S CLASS
THE EARTH IS WILD
FROM WATCHING THE WIND
I AM LIKE A PALM
I FEED WITH MY HEART
Plastic Poetry is a project of O, Miami and Free Plastic in partnership with Nautilus Middle 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.
