Jordan, We would be swiftly arrested and all the commuters would hate us and hate poetry or whatever we're reading at the megaphone. This is why it sounds like a great plan to me, just maybe not for this class. I don't want to do anything that some of the participants might resist absolutely.
I posted something in the comments this morning, but I obviously didn't do it correctly. My idea is to compose and make a 16 page chapbook (standard format) in an extremely compressed time frame (edition 100). I think we could compose the texts, copy, fold, staple, cut, and number them in 60-75 minutes. This would leave us about 90 minutes to read them and distribute them to the unsuspecting publick at an outside place TBA (weather permitting).
Each participant could handwrite/draw/etc. on an 8.5 x 11 page, which shrinks down on the photocopier at 50% to the perfect 4.25 x 5.5 size. We could choose an idea or thread and go from there. This is the return of the democratic multiple. Remind me to tell you about the Oxford 1877 Caxton Celebration Bible.
I (we) welcome other ideas! Let's go. I'm going to post this as a regular blog post because I don't want it to vanish again. [And I tried to enter it into the comments section again and again messed it up.]
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i like the idea of this
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