If You're at the Walker Art Center's Open Field Today between 11am and 5pm, Answer the Poetry Phone!

In yet another marriage of poetry and telephones (see also these two posts), Minneapolis's Walker Art Center has installed a Poetry Phone as part of its Open Field project. If the phone rings, pick it up and a poet will read you a poem. The poems are curated by Joshua Beckman.

A brief description from the Walker Open Field blog:

Look around the Walker for the black rotary dial phone on a fake rock. When the phone rings, pick up! There is probably a poet on the line waiting to read to you. The poetry phone offers mobile personal poetry performances, given via telephone by a variety of poets. Readings take place throughout the day in a variety of locations across the Walker campus. Poetry curated by Joshua Beckman, who is a poet himself, and enjoys the occasional phone call.

A brief write-up on the Poetry Phone can be found here.