<strong>Letters: </strong>A piece on John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem in New York takes reader <strong>Fay Cornes</strong> back to the Cardiff-based version of the early 1970s
A new exhibition is reviving John Giorno's Dial-a-Poem public service. The late poet and artist created the free hotline in 1969, featuring avant garde poets like Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Amiri Baraka, and Patti Smith.
After receiving hundreds of thousands of calls, the poet’s project almost broke the New York telephone exchange – leading to an FBI investigation. Will it cause similar chaos in the Instapoet era?