…is the number of poems that Poems While You Waiters Liz Hildreth, Maureen Ewing, Todd McCarty, Rachel Slotnick and Becky Wills…

…wrote for customers at today’s Chicago Book Expo, including Louis, pictured here (holding his poem), who asked for a poem about a drawing he did of “water.”

Thanks to Lynn Haller and John Wilson for their organizational genius in putting the whole event together, and to everyone who requested a poem!