…is the number of poems that we—Eric Plattner, Andrea Rehani, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, and I—wrote while doing Poems While You Wait at the Chicago Opera Theater’s annual gala, in conjunction with their production of Moby-Dick for such people as these…

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…and these:

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Thanks to the COT for having us, and to everyone who came out to hear some music and commission a poem on a Sunday night! Stay tuned to the PWYW tumblr for the results.