THE UNIVERSITY OF WYNWOOD was founded in 2008 with the goal of bringing excellence to Miami-Dade County in the fields of poetry and women's jai-alai.
Our principal activities are:
- We host, at minimum, two Visiting Poets a year to give readings and workshops in Miami;
- We design lectures, panels, and other intellectually-based programming in collaboration with other cultural organizations;
- We publish D.I.Y. print objects such as The Cent Journal Series, an anthology of Miami writing;
- We assist young Miami writers via our advisory service to high school literary publications and our internship program.
- We field the University of Wynwood Lady Pythons Women's jai-alai team, the premiere Division III women's jai-alai team in the country.
As part of our mandate to work in conjunction with other cultural organizations, we do not have a facility open to the public, preferring to instead view the whole of Miami-Dade County has one gigantic campus in its latency period.
Previous and current collaborators include: Miami Art Museum, Miami World Cinema Center, Gallery Diet, Miami-Dade Public Libraries, Miami Poetry Collective, Brikolodge Coworking Communities, Dacra Development, Sweat Records, the Wolfsonian Museum, The Miami New Times, Florida Center for the Literary Arts, Margulies Collection, Lotus House, Locust Projects, the Vagabond, the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, Bardot, Bakehouse Art Complex, Design Miami, Books and Books, Bas Fisher Invitational, and The Betsy-South Beach, among others.
You can reach us at 786-871-4817 or at . If you'd like to receive invitations to private events and be kept up-to-date on UW happenings via our mailing list, please join the Lady Python Nation. You can find us on Twitter at @ladypythons.
The director and founder of the University of Wynwood is P. Scott Cunningham. The project manager is Peter Borrebach. The assistant director is Ximena Izquierdo. Our website was designed by Christopher Louvet, a poet and web designer based in Miami, and our seal was designed by Isaac Littlejohn Eddy, a cast member of the Blue Man Group in New York City and a cartoonist for the New York Times Neighborhood blog.
University of Wynwood t-shirts, books, brochures, and journals are available for purchase at our events.
The University of Wynwood is made possible by the John and James L. Knight Foundation. Please support the arts in Miami.
"Nowadays we everywhere seek to propagate wisdom: who knows whether in a couple of centuries there may not exist universities for restoring the old ignorance?" -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1795