Plastic Poetry 006
Poinciana Park Elementary
On July 29, 2022, Free Plastic and O, Miami installed their sixth 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 by Rianna Stepney, a third grade student from Poinciana Park Elementary as part of O, Miami’s Sunroom Program in 2022. The five-inch letters are rendered in 4.47 lbs of recycled post-consumer plastic and plastic pollution harvested from various beach cleanups held throughout Miami-Dade County in 2021 and 2022.
Poinciana Park Elementary’s Plastic Poetry Statistics
O, Miami’s Sunroon Program: Spring 2022
Participants: 15
Plastic Recycled: 4.47 lbs
Where I’m From
BY RIANNA STEPNEY
I am from Miami
I shine like the sun
In my home
I am bright light to all who know me
Lavender blooms around me
Plastic Poetry is a project of O, Miami and Free Plastic 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.
