…is the number of poems that we–Amy  Baptista, James Berg, Liz Hildreth, David Kholamian, Caro Macon, Eric Plattner, Andrea Rehani, Rachel Slotnick, Rachel Summerfield, Becky Wills, Shane Zimmer, and I–wrote while doing Poems While You Wait…

…at Harold Washington Library’s National Poetry Month Poetry Fest…

…for such people as these…

Thanks to everyone who came out to commission a poem on a rainy Spring day and stay tuned to the PWYW tumblr for the results!