Dial-A-Poem is a public poetry service established in 1968 by the late poet, artist and activist John Giorno after a phone conversation with William Burroughs. The service enabled members of the public to call Giorno Poetry Systems and to listen to a poem selected at random by writers including Amiri Baraka, William Burroughs, John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Bobby Seale, Patti Smith and Anne Waldman. Installed first at the Architectural League of New York (in January 1969) before moving to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago for six weeks (in November 1969) and then to the Museum of Modern Art in New York (in July 1970), the venture received widespread media attention. However, it was also known for its counter-cultural content – including polemics, Black Panther speeches, Buddhist mantra