Anyone Can Contribute to This Giant Poem...if You Can Find This Typewriter

Since 2014 “The Typewriter Project” has been popping up in New York City parks. Inside a small, wooden shack is a seat, a typewriter, and a 100-foot-long scroll of paper. The project is working to engage everyday New Yorkers by giving them a chance to contribute to a long, ongoing poem.

"I think that poetry needs a new connection with people and this definitely does that," Shabazz Larkin, a New Yorker who recently took a turn at the typewriter, tells Narvaez. "It's incredible, I'm jealous I don't have one of these in my house."

The Typewriter Project is stationed inside McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn through July 24.

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