Above: Stevens (left) and O’Hara on the phone (right).

In the vein of Walter De Maria’s seminal 1968-69 show “Art By Telephone” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (full recording at UbuWeb) comes another telephone-based art exhibition by another august Chicago institution: Coudal Partners’ Verse by Voice. Two initial favorites are Wallace Stevens’s “The Snowman” as read by Jim Coudal, and Frank O’Hara’s “Steps” as read by Rosencrans Baldwin. (BTW: Have you noticed that Coudal.com’s patron saint is St John of God, the patron saint of booksellers? Awesome.)