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To mark World Poetry Day, more than a thousand coffee establishments around the world will use poetry as their currency this Saturday.
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What is a poem worth? As authors around the world despair of making a living, a company based in Vienna has finally come up with a definitive answer: one cup of coffee.
Julius Meinl, a coffee-roasting company founded in 1862, is marking Unescos World Poetry Day with a promotion in 1,100 cafes, bars and restaurants across 23 countries mostly in continental Europe but including the UK, the US and Australia, offering a dose of caffeine to any customer who hands over one of their own poems.
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What is a poem worth? As authors around the world despair of making a living, a company based in Vienna has finally come up with a definitive answer: one cup of coffee.
Julius Meinl, a coffee-roasting company founded in 1862, is marking Unescos World Poetry Day with a promotion in 1,100 cafes, bars and restaurants across 23 countries mostly in continental Europe but including the UK, the US and Australia, offering a dose of caffeine to any customer who hands over one of their own poems.
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That is very awesome. Any idea what they do with the poems, though? Hope they don't just go to waste. They should be in a place to be read, which I assume they will be.
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Yin wrote That is very awesome. Any idea what they do with the poems, though? Hope they don't just go to waste. They should be in a place to be read, which I assume they will be.
I have no idea what they'll do with the poems.
If it was me I would mark the back of them and then hand them out to people with their coffee.
So you give in a poem, and you get one in return as well.
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Now this seems awesome.
Me personally I am not a Poetry person.
But I still think this is cool and a good Idea.
Me personally I am not a Poetry person.
But I still think this is cool and a good Idea.
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