Poetry On Demand, Then & Now

Remember Dial-A-Poem? That wonderful little phone number with a New York area code that you could call at any time of day and hear rants, songs, and straight poetry from some of the biggest names of the era didn’t last too long (it was active, on and off, from 1969 to 1971,) but it lingers in the collective memory of the ’60s generation like so many other icons of the time. Now, Dial-A-Poem has been reborn as a web site, archiving all the old content from the phone service, as well as bonus material that never made it on the line.