O, Miami Poetry Festival is throwing itself a quinceañera, and everyone's invited

• Over the years, O, Miami's festival has become a communal effort to celebrate the city we call home and the people who share it with us.

What they're saying: "O, Miami really depends on collaboration, [and] we've been able to be small but mighty because of the breadth of the folks who bring us their ideas and execute [them] with us," Caroline Cabrera, the organization's artistic director, told Axios.

• Each year, the festival accepts submissions from people suggesting events they'd like to see come to life.
• Over the last 15 years, the organization has produced more than 1,200 events.

The big picture: This year's festival is bookended by the "pillar programs that have become community meeting points during April," executive director Melody Santiago Cummings told Axios.

• Poetry & Pajamas, the beloved kids' open mic night, is on April 3 at Pinecrest Gardens.
• ZipOdes, the annual celebration of Miami through its ZIP codes, will close out O, Miami on April 29.

Meanwhile, events throughout the month will center on the idea of wonder — a theme born from one of the festival's previous projects.

• This year, the festival is premiering a feature-length planetarium film at the Frost Museum for its Earth Day Event on April 25.
• The film, "UniVERSE," is the organization's largest-scale publishing project, featuring poems from K-12 students and community members inspired by the wonders of space and South Florida's natural environment.

Case in point: On April 1, the festival begins with a full moon party, where guests will lean into wonder with the pink moon rising, moon-themed poems and an open mic.

• Then, on April 19, the festival partners with Raw Figs, a local art pop-up, for Circus of Words, a live figure-drawing of aerial acrobats meant to inspire wonder and creativity.

Here are some of this year's most intriguing events:

La Versicleta: Poems When Ice Melts: Miami-based artist Julian Pardo, using his custom-made bike inspired by Caribbean fruit vendors and powered by a melting block of ice, will print poems from the festival's "Soy de Todas Partes" project archive onto the concrete.

• The archive highlights the work of immigrants and uplifts immigrant communities.

All-Aboard-leggers: A collaboration between O, Miami, Bookleggers Library and the Gold Coast Railroad Museum invites guests of all ages to learn about the rail system and pick up free books.

• Attendees can also participate in a scavenger hunt and write poems on-site.

Dream Delivery Service: Poet Mathias Svalina will write and deliver — either by bike or by mail — individual dream poems (short surrealist narratives) throughout the month to those who subscribe.

• "It's a beautiful project we've wanted to bring in for years," Cabrera said. "The 15th anniversary seemed like the right time to do it."

Read to Filth: Guests will clean the mangroves with Andrew Otazo, write poems and hear local Drag Queen Auntie Maim "read someone to filth" for dumping their waste on our coastlines.

• "Every year, you can anticipate a project where we're improving the community and having poetry be the conduit that unites us," Santiago Cummings said.

Yes, but: Attendees can still enjoy the features they've come to expect, like poetry parking tickets and exchanging poems for something in return, like a cup of coffee.

The bottom line: The scope of events this year — and the partnerships behind them — underscores that Miamians, like their city, should never be underestimated.

• "This [year's] festival is not about O, Miami," Cabrera said. "It's about all of us and what we've done the last 15 years."