…is the number of poems that we–Logan Breitbart, David Kholamian, Hajrije Kolimja, Eric Plattner, Hannah Radeke, Andrea Rehani, & I wrote while doing Poems While You Wait at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in honor of their debut of three Lisel Mueller settings…

…for such people as these…

…& these: 

Thanks so much to the CSO for having us, and  to everyone who came out to commission a musical poem. Stay tuned to the PWYW tumblr for the results!