The conceit of the work, created by downtown New York artist and connector John Giorno in 1969, is simple in an analog way: dial a phone number, hear a reading of a poem. Now it has followed the march of so much other content to a new home online. Other poets who have contributed include Laurie Anderson, Juliana Huxtable, William S. Burroughs, Anne Waldman, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, Abbie Hoffman, Bobby Seale, and many more. As Barbosa told the New York Times, “We thought a lot about how you achieve different audiences. Someone in the middle of the Amazon jungle can dial the number and have access to a poem.”