…is the number of poems that we–Lisa Farver, Eric Plattner, Michael Rydel, Toni Smalls, Shane Zimmer, and I–wrote while doing Poems While You Wait at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Muti concert (where Francis Ford Coppola was in attendance, but alas, did not request a poem:

Thanks to the CSO for having us. Stay tuned to the PWYW instagram for the results!