Post Haste
O, Miami Poetry Festival / Unscripted Bal Harbour
Post Haste was an original outdoor poetry exhibition featuring a series of four visual poems by O, Miami, on Miami Beach’s Bal Habour beach walk.
Inspired by pre-war marketing for the Burma Shave Company—famous for its advertising campaigns featuring humorous rhyming poems on small sequential highway signs—the poems were presented according to the speed of the beach walk’s usage as a thoroughfare for biking, jogging, and walking. Though all four poems were also in conversation, each was divided into six signs and designed to be read in one continuous pass and direction.
Photographs by World Red Eye, courtesy Unscripted Bal Harbour
“Reading a poem is a lot more fun than running alone.” One of four six-part signs; poem by O, Miami
Opening event walkthrough with exhibition curator Claire Breukel.
“The only time I’m not alone is when you’re looking at me.” One of four six-part signs; poem by O, Miami
Exhibition opening invitation.
