…is the number of poems that we–Chirskira Caillouet, April Gibson, Bri McLaughlin, Rachel Robbins–wrote while doing Poems While You Wait at the first annual South Side Lit Fest in Bridgeport, while Martin Seay and Elizabeth Harrison and I sold books for Rose Metal Press…

Thanks to Jeremy Kitchen for having us and to everyone who commissioned a poem on a summery Saturday. Stay tuned to the PWYW instagram for the results!