Poem Depot is a pop-up store that sells original poems. For a pre-arranged fee, members of the Miami Poetry Collective write poems on manual typewriters based on topics, themes, or forms suggested by the consumers.

Poem Depot has become a regular feature of Wynwood's Second Saturday Art Walk and has also created events in partnership with the Miami Art Museum, Miami-Dade and Hollywood Public Libraries, Books & Books, and the Margulies Collection.

WLRN's Under the Sun reported on the Poem Depot and put together this excellent video:

You can listen to Studio 360's coverage here too:

Many thanks to WLRN's Alicia Zuckerman for both stories.

The Miami Poetry Collective was founded by Campbell McGrath at a plastic table in front of Zeke's Roadhouse Bar in the winter of 2008. Among other things, we produce the Cent Journal series in severely limited editions and run Poem Depot events in and around Miami.