…is how many poems we–Daniela Olszewska, Dave Landsberger, Elizabeth Hildreth, Eric Plattner, Kenyatta Rogers, and I–wrote at today’s National Poetry Month program of Poems While You Wait at the Deerfield Public Library. We wrote them for such people as these…

…on such typewriters as these…

…and these…

…and the library was a lovely host. The even made us this sign: 

Thanks to all the librarians and staff at the Deerfield Library, and to all the Deerfieldians who came out to request poems on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Stay tuned to the PWYW tumblr for poems on such topics as “Whales,” “Babies,” “Animals,” “Loneliness,” and “Serendipity.”