Miami's Favorite Poems Project Archive
Miami's Favorite Poems Project was launched on Nov. 19, 2022 at the Miami Book Fair. During the launch, notable figures each read their favorite poem aloud to those attending. Below is a list of the reader, the title and author of the poem read:
- Miami-Dade County Poet Laureate Richard Blanco; "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop
- Miami-Dade County Poetry Ambassador Nicole Tallman; "Say Thank You Say I'm Sorry" by Jericho Brown
- Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello; "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" by Jack Gilbert
- Miami Dade College President Madeline Pumariega; "Mother Country" by Richard Blanco
- Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava; "Hope is the Thing with Feathers (254)" by Emily Dickinson
- Robert Pinsky; "Caminante; No Hay Camino/Traveler, There is No Road" by Antonio Machado
- Sandra Cisneros; "Dedications" by Ambar Past
- Ruth Behar; "Eternity" by Dulce María Loynaz (translated by David Frye)
- Campbell McGrath; "Saying the First Words" by Gerald Stern
- Denise Duhamel; "Modifications" by Ron Koertge
- Anjanette Delgado; "The Independence (of Puerto Rico)"
- Arsimmer McCoy and Yaheli McCoy-Smith; "We Organized" by Patricia C. McKissack
- Omar Figueras; "I'm Nobody! Who Are You? (260)" by Emily Dickinson
- Caridad Moro-Gronlier; "How to Triumph Like a Girl" by Ada Limón
- Scott Cunningham; "The Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin
Miami's Favorite Poems
Last updated March 23, 2023
Submitter's Name: Joey Di Girolamo
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "A Person/A Paper/A Promise" by Dr. Earl Reum
Submitter's Name: Erin Sternstein
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "The Period Poem" by Dominique Christina
Submitter's Name: Geoffrey Philp
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "A Letter from Brooklyn" by Derek Walcott
Submitter's Name: Yael Valencia Aldana
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "Two Miles Away" by Margaret Atwood
Submitter's Name: MaryKatherine Wainwright
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "Looking for the Gulf Motel" by Richard Blanco
Submitter's Name: Chloe Firetto-Toomey
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps" by Andrea Gibson
Submitter's Name: Marilyn Corbin
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "In Blackwater Woods" by Mary Oliver
Submitter's Name: Norma Martí
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Submitter's Name: David Alberto Fernández
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "Richard Cory" by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Submitter's Name: Diana Bloom
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "An April Sunday Brings the Snow" by Philip Larkin
Submitter's Name: Gabriel Gatica
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII" by Pablo Neruda
Submitter's Name: Clayre Benzadon
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "Mountain Dew Commerical Disguised as a Love Poem" by Matthew Olzmann
Submitter's Name: Mary Block
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "State Bird" by Ada Limón
Submitter's Name: Stephanie Woolley-Larrea
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "The Green Shirt" by Sharon Olds
Submitter's Name: Catalina Collazos
Title and Author of Favorite Poem: "93 Percent Stardust" by Nikita Gill
