For this project, fluorescent posters that are commonly used for commercial purposes will be produced to showcase the literary works of local poets and will be placed across different neighborhoods in Miami. Whether the posters are mounted to chain-link fences, construction site walls, or trees and electrical poles, the idea is for them to treat their surroundings as an extension of the typeset page, thereby transforming the space of the city itself into a poem to be read.

The literary content of the posters will address the subject of displacement, which speaks to the cultural makeup of Miami “comprised greatly of immigrants”, and in a more immediate context to gentrification—a socio-economic issue that has forced black and brown communities out of the neighborhoods they resided in for decades. Lastly, the poems will be presented in three different languages (English, Spanish and Creole), to allow them to resonate with Miami’s foreign-born community.