Reach Out and Touch Someone

      Now that we use our phones as cameras, news sources, Walkmans, date-finders, navigators, gaming consoles, meditation aids, and...so on, it's easy to forget that we can also use our telephones to make phone calls. 

     Trapeta B. Mayson has not forgotten. She is the poet laureate of Philadelphia, and a force behind the Healing Verse Poetry Line. 

      Mayson wants to give people a chance to deal with troubling times by dialing 1-855-763-6792 and listening to a new poem (written by a Philly-area poet) every week. The chosen poems are meant to be "new, affirming, and hopeful." Dial-An-Affirmation!