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Speaker 1: Click clack, go the typewriters With this pop up Poetry

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Speaker 1: ten at the Boston Book Festival, visitors give authors something

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Speaker 1: meaningful in their lives to write about. A place, a person,

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Speaker 1: maybe an injured athlete Jason Tatol. He inspires mees my views. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're like, maybe hoping he's on the fast track to recovery. No,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to take their time. Daniel Johnson is executive

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Speaker 1: director of Mass Poetry. Here, they're having folks write odes

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Speaker 1: to their zip codes. Each number in your hometown represents

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Speaker 1: the amount of words you have to write in a line.

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Speaker 2: We have some workshops on everything from writing you know,

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Speaker 2: about grief you know. There's a small press feature with

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Speaker 2: four great presses from the Boston area.

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Speaker 1: Authors from all over are gathered here for keynote speeches,

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Speaker 1: and of course there's plenty of books on sale and

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Speaker 1: almost everywhere you look at Copley Square. J Willette WBZ,

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Speaker 1: Boston's news radio