People+Poetry Why?
We chose the name All the People Poetic in 2020 because there is a connection between people, poetry and flowers. Like poems, flowers can be symbolic of every human emotion, depending on their themes, their colors and how they are arranged.
Like people, flowers are diverse, coming in every shape, color, and aroma. Similarly, both flowers and people, take on a greater beauty when they are arranged together harmoniously.
In literary terms, the arrangement of diverse emotions, colors, sounds, shapes, and moments into a collective can be summed up into the adjective, “poetic.”
When you ask someone what is “poetic,” it can be quite hard to describe. Its like something that works perfectly, but you don’t know how. Its almost a miraculous as all the elements that must be at work to change one seed into a sunflower. Or as surprising as joy from sorrow. Even as unbelievable as life after death.
Poetic are those moments in life that make us happy; that make us sad; that make us remember.
Poetic can be a seemingly ugly thing that hides a wondrous ability. Or, it can be the pain, that shakes us into a different mindset.
Poetic are the words that I am writing as a PhD in Spanish literature who chose selling flowers in the plaza over academic accolades and conferences.
Poetic is when you embrace life and its changes. Poetic is marveling at the changing of seasons, the moon, in the waves, a lover’s heartbeat.
Poetic is People, and People are Poetic.
With their poetic nature, flowers express the love, the joy, the sorrow, the smiles, the imperfections, and the countless miracles of humanity, and human experience. Because of this, the gifting of flowers has been and will always be a part of us and our experience.
As humble as a son, gifting his mother a bunch of dandelions or as timeless as a woman walking down the aisle with a bouquet of orchids or roses beneath her breasts, flowers will accompany us, if we welcome them into our experience.
As a literary professor by trade, and a florist by heart, my goal with this company is to bring florals into the lives of all people in a way that absolutely poetic, and absolutely unforgettable.
At the end of the day, inviting poetry and people together as they should by ensuring that our prices fit every budget, giving back in free flowers for those that can’t afford them; and publishing poetry is what we have hoped to do and are DOING now here At All the People Poetic Floral Arrangements. Why? Because All the People Need Flowers.
People+ Poetry Community Events and Outreach
1. Clifton Plaza, Flower Market, Cincinnati, *Spring, Summer and Fall, Thursdays
2. Poetry and Flower, Open Mic *Held at our Flower Shop, Saturdays, Summer and Fall, 6pm-8pm
3. Free Flower Giveaway, Astoria Place Nursing Home *Weekly
The Future for All the People Poetic Floral Arrangements
1. Free Floral Design School for under privileged youth
2. Community Garden in Avondale with emphasis on wholelistic health and sustainability.
3. Full Publishing Company. Publishing 2 full length poetry collections from one local and one international artist yearly with 20,000 dollar author stipend.
