O’Miami, a county-wide poetry festival, is under way. Its ambitious goal: for every single person in Miami-Dade County to encounter a poem during the month of April. Produced by the University of Wynwood and funded by Knight Foundation, O, Miami is a month-long series of events and projects with the simple goal of every person in Miami-Dade County finding a poem. Mixing traditional readings with innovative poetry-in-public-places projects, the festival will weave poetry into the fabric of the city’s existing infrastructure and cultural life. Events will be conducted in multiple languages, sometimes simultaneously, often in collaboration with other cultural organizations. O, Miami culminates in a four-day series of readings from April 27-30, 2011 at the Frank Gehry-designed New World Symphony Hall on Miami Beach.

Read a Knight Arts interview with O’Miami founder Scott Cunningham. Or read this Miami Herald story about O’Miami. For more information, check out its Web site.