O, Miami invites you to become a member of the Dade Poets Society, a group dedicated to supporting and uplifting our work.

Don’t just stanza there!

Please see details in the image carousel below, or read it in your browser by clicking here.

Prospective members should contact our Executive Director, Melody Santiago Cummings.

We believe Miami is most poetic city in the world.

Throughout the year, we teach poetry to kids in schools, host a month-long poetry festival, and publish Miamians in books and unexpected places like billboards, fences, and walls. Our work is an act of love for our city, inviting Miamians to share their stories and write a new one together.

Sestina - $25,000
The Al & Jan Nahmad Family Foundation
Tom Healy and Fred P. Hochberg
Green Family Foundation

Villanelle - $10,000
Sujata & Devdutt Yellurkar in honor of R. Parthasarathy
Albert and Anya Salama

Triolet - $5,000
Kenneth Chenault
The Frigohams
Thea & Bob Mitzman
Craig Robins
Tracy Slavens and Daniel Schwartz
Quinn and Lady Smith
UHealth Jackson Children’s Care
Gesi and Ezequiel Zylberberg
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Sonnet - $2,500
Sarah Arison
Anne Cabrera and Adrian Mesa
Caroline Casino
Ara and Rachel Hovnanian
Abigael Mahony
Abby Pogrebin
David Shapiro
Lizzy & Jon Tisch
Barbara and John Vogelstein

Haiku - $1,000
Paulo and Jubi Arriola-Headley
Willie Avendano
Hugh Bush
Brady Bird and Juniper Blue
Marilyn E. Campbell
Adrienne Chadwick
Carolyn and Rodney Cunningham
Clydette & Charles de Groot
Flood Myths II
Jeff Gates and Michael Moran
Laura Childs Gill
Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown
The Kaplan Family
Deborah and Rocco Landesman
Elizabeth Lichtenstein and Campbell McGrath
Becky Lichtenstein and Larry Doyle
John Joseph Lin
LSN Partners
Nicole Mesko
Stacey and Eric Mindich
Tom Nides
Rusty O’Kelley
Andi Potamkin
Rosen-Cappellazzo
Oscar Seikaly
Tyler & Sarah Sherwin
Adrian Villaraos and Marika Lynch
Walid & Susie Wahab
Suzy Wahba
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Couplet - $500
Hanif Abduraqqib
Meryl J Chertoff
Kathianne Crane
Mario Cruz / Barbaro Mojo
Lesley Goldwasser and Jonathan Plutzik
Laura & Eric Gould
Kita Huerta & Andres Aguilar
David Lombardi
Jorge and Tere Negrete
Amancio Paradela
Jeffrey R.
Debra Scholl
Sally Susman and Robin Canter
Albert Taruc
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