…took place yesterday-day and yesterday evening. At the former, Rose Metal Press shared a table with Arsenic Lobster to sell books and journals…

…and Poems While You Wait cranked out hot, fresh poems–28 of them–one table over:

That evening, I got to present on Margaret Anderson, who–along with David Hernandez, Edgar Lee Masters, Willard Motley, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Walker–was being inducted to the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. Rick Kogan…

…was the emcee, and Cynthia Judge performed–robin’s egg blue suit and all–as Margaret Anderson herself: 

Thanks to everyone who bought poems and books at the Expo, and to everyone who came out to learn about Chicago’s literary historical past!