[New-Poetry] poetry bombing over Berlin

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/08/poetry-bombs-berlin-los-angeles.html
Chilean art collective Casagrande dropped 100,000 bookmarks printed with poems from a helicopter over Berlin on Saturday night. The works were by 80 poets from Chile and Germany, and the poetry bombing was meant as an action to protest war and support peace. The group has done this before, the Guardian reports:

It was the fifth "poetry rain" project from Chilean art collective Casagrande, which has arranged previous poetry bombing events in Santiago de Chile (2001), Dubrovnik (2002), Gernika (2004) and Warsaw (2009) -- all cities which, like Berlin, have suffered aerial bombings during their history. ...



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