The 2022-23 concert season recently came to a close and saw the culmination of amajorpoetry and music commissioning project in which I had the tremendous honor to be involved.

Last season marked the 75^th-anniversary season of the Chamber Music Columbus concert series, for I was honored to serve as poet laureate. The anniversary season unfolded in a year-long celebration involving the commissioning and public performances of seven new poems, the world premieres of more than a dozen commissioned musical works by internationally recognized composers, and seven concerts at Columbus’ historic Southern Theatre featuring some of the finest classical chamber music ensembles in the world.

My involvement in the project came…