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You have found the hidden wiki link! Well done! Now for the important part that's going to give me credit...

What caught my interest this week was the dial-a-poem. What a feeling it must have been to listen to poetry heavyweights such as Ginsberg and Carrol and hear their works the way they were meant to be heard. For the 60's and 70's, this was a big deal. After reading the article, I opened up YouTube to get a sample of it, and was swiftly reminded about how spoiled our generation is. I listened to an excerpt from Jim Carrol's Basketball Diaries and thought about how easy it was to [access]. Poetry, in its pristine form, is usually spoken aloud. Dispersed before a live audience in either a lounge or a theater. Dial-a-poem helped to bring the raw emotional essence of a poem to the masses. Sure, broadcast television did the same on a grander scale but only when the sponsors allowed it. This was a direct precursor to YouTube, so much thanks to them! I didn't look into but does the service still exist? It may seem obsolete by today's standards but payphone collect call numbers still exist so there may be a chance!

SB_Sultan