Greetings Infomaniacs,

A friend recently bought a "Magnetic Poetry" Kit, and covered her refrigerator door with little magnetized words, for her  friends to rearrange into phrases and poems. Have you heard of Magnetic Poetry, and know how it got its start? 

Dave Kapell, founder of Magnetic Poetry, was suffering from writer's block while trying to compose song lyrics. To overcome this problem, he wrote down words on pieces of paper and rearranged them, looking for inspiration. But Dave had aller-
gies, and a sneeze sent any progress flying across the room.  He decided to glue the words to pieces of magnets and stick them to a pizza tin. Then he got hungry and the now magnetized words made their way to the refrigerator door. Before 
long, Dave wasn't the only one rearranging his would-be song lyrics. When friends came over, Dave noticed they started to move the magnets around and writing the first magnetic poems. 

Dave thought he could sell his word kits at a local craft fair. He made up 100 kits and set up shop at a mall in Minneapolis. All 100 kits were gone after three hours. That night, he recruited as many friends as pizza and beer could draw and made up more kits--all of which sold as rapidly the next day. 

From these beginnings, Magnetic Poetry has now sold over three million word kits, over one billion word tiles--growing from the Original Kit to a kid's line of kits, to foreign language kits, to Voice/theme kits. 
 
Poetry Stones, Poetry Beads, and the Magnetic Poetry Game are now available, too.  The website is:  www.magneticpoetry.com
 

Lee
Lee@gophercentral.com

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