Toronto Poetry Vendors
(in)dispensable poetryAbout TPV
Toronto Poetry Vendors is a mechanical poetry journal which operates out of refurbished gum vending machines. Produced twice yearly, issues consist of 10 single, hand-folded broadsides by 10 Toronto-based poets, which can be purchased from the machines for a toonie. The most recent issue was cranked out in September 2010.
TPV is the gangly baby of poets and girls-about-town Elisabeth de Mariaffi and Carey Toane.
[...] bought a poem out of a vending machine. A very cool vending machine operated by Toronto Poetry Vendors. The poem came wrapped up like a box of cigarettes. I’d heard about someone doing this with [...]