where they do things like writing live poetry on typewriters at weddings

Kro also works with the Glass Keys Collective, a self-described “lackadaisical consortium of typewriter poets” that works together as a “loose conglomerate.”

organization of Chicago typewriter poets, Poems While You Wait, has been around since 2011. The group’s mission is to provide patrons with “a magical, unexpected, unpretentious, and decontextualized encounter with poetry.”

Chicagoan Kay Kro, “the Traveling Typist.” Kro, who owns 16 typewriters, works as a “typewriter poet,” setting up to type poems on the spot at street fairs, art fests, markets, weddings, and wherever they can find a gig.