Description on back (not shown) reads "How the system works: the large tape recorder (right) holds the master tape containing 156 two minute poems from 13 living American poets. Giorno takes off from the master-file an individual poem which is housed in a small spool inside the casing below each phone. The poems are changed frequently so that callers don't hear the same poem constantly."

Identifier
NYSA_18916-98_Dial-A-Poem_ph03

Date Original
circa 1969

Contributor
Kemp, Roy (Photographer)

Language
English

Source
New York State Archives. New York State Council on the Arts. Photographs of Council-supported events. 18196-98. Box 5.

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