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January 2, 2014
January 1, 2014
Pink hair. Pink cupcakes. Pink kitchen. Hope 2014 is so sweet it...

Pink hair. Pink cupcakes. Pink kitchen. Hope 2014 is so sweet it makes you blush.
December 31, 2013
DECEMBER 2013
A teacher in St Petersburg, Florida saw me on TV...

DECEMBER 2013
A teacher in St Petersburg, Florida saw me on TV and sent me an e-mail asking to come perform for her High School seniors and teach them some poetry stuff. There, I stayed in a hotel on the beach, lounged on a hammock, ate the best food, drank mango daiquiris, and saw the rad sunset pictured above in “The Sunset Capital of Florida.”
A thing about me: I am always doing work. I rarely know how to relax. But after teaching the High School, I drove four hours to my father’s house and stayed with him for a week. And I hardly worked at all. I chilled hard by the pool, and read four incredible novels, and hung out with the 55+ community, and didn’t worry about what I was eating, and allowed myself to watch TV, and breathe, and bond with my dad, and recoup from all the crazy that 2013 was.
Here’s the other thing: I’ve had my Macbook for over five years and it is a failing crashing dinosaur. My dad knows this. On my last night in Florida, I walked into the guest room, and saw a box on the bed wrapped in Charlie Brown paper, and a card with my name on it. When I opened it, it was a brand new Macbook Pro. My dad gave me a big hug and said “to further your career.”
Here’s to 2014, friends. Here’s to the big wide world. I’m coming for you.
NOVEMBER 2013
In November (because I am a crazy-person) I...

NOVEMBER 2013
In November (because I am a crazy-person) I decided to partake in another poem-a-day challenge with my wickedly rad intern Chelsea Coreen! We both encouraged and pushed each other and grew a lot while sending poems and feedback back and forth daily. I was also inspired watching Miles (who turned 23 this month!) write a NOVEL for NaNoWriMo in 30 days. I committed myself to reading more and to exploring the reasons why most of the world dreams of living in the city I’ve been apart of my whole life. I took Angel Nafis’ “In Real Life” writing workshop every Saturday and broke myself open in the presence of others who were doing the same witchcraft. Issues (that I won’t get into here) back home surfaced and I lost a lot of trust I’d been building since birth, but I was lucky to have Miles, our own place, my friends, Brooklyn and life inside of it, and (as always) ART to really fall back on. I felt blessed just the same.
(Photo: Shira E, Taco & I walking through Brooklyn after shooting her new music video!)
OCTOBER 2013
In October I lit candles for my cousin, Ana, on the...

OCTOBER 2013
In October I lit candles for my cousin, Ana, on the two year anniversary of her untimely death. I also buried my cat, Gizzy, who had been mine since I was six years old, in my childhood home backyard. It was a month of beating my fists into the mud. Of dismantling. Of Death Cab For Cutie. And then, of hurling myself into activities like painting the kitchen and living room, finding furniture, hanging art, and getting obsessive over Halloween. Miles & I threw a big party in our apartment, and dressed up as Sam & Suzy from Moonrise Kingdom. And I kind of never wanted to take that dress off. Still don’t.
SEPTEMBER 2013
September was rad because we were able to host a...

SEPTEMBER 2013
September was rad because we were able to host a lot of visitors in our new apartment, including Tricia Pryce Henley & Katie Wirsing! I spent time fostering newer friendships, but also rekindling old ones with friends I’ve known since I was three. Both sets of relationships were markers for how m much I have changed throughout the years, or maybe, how other people have stayed the same. And even though I thought it was impossible, I made up with my family. And that’s all there really is. And it’s also everything.
AUGUST 2013
I celebrated my two year anniversary with Miles by...

AUGUST 2013
I celebrated my two year anniversary with Miles by attending our friends Catalina & Karen’s Wedding. Healthy relationships are like, the deal. How they feel like a warm blanket out of the dryer as opposed to a sunburn. I went to The National Poetry Slam and got to watch the poetry community rally together to boo my abuser off stage. I turned 25 and spent the day in the water. Rebirth.
JULY 2013
I moved in with Miles! (Take that, January 2013...

JULY 2013
I moved in with Miles! (Take that, January 2013 Megan!) We found a really big, beautiful apartment in Ditmas Park with Taco & Biscuit (our kitty). I spent most of this month painting and decorating and feeling like I was a three year old playing house. This apartment is my first time living with a romantic partner and I love cooking for Miles every night and waking up to his stinky breath each morning. All in all, moving to Brooklyn has been a really awesome life-choice and I am so thrilled to spend more time learning all this city has to offer. Come over!
JUNE 2013
In June I was still feuding with my family, and I had...

JUNE 2013
In June I was still feuding with my family, and I had to find a place to live pronto. I stayed with Miles for awhile, but his roommates (a “community organizer” dude and a woman who devotes her career to helping women who’ve experienced trauma, lol) refused to let me contribute rent and live with them until I could find my own spot. It was a slap across a face that had just been burned. However, the poetry community really came together to support me and helped me build an impromptu poetry tour and crash on couches in the Midwest and Northeast. I visited Pennsylvania, Ohio, Upstate New York, and Maine and read poems and sold books and gave all the hurt away each night. I also attended The Pink Door Women’s Writing Retreat and Good Idea Summit at Rachel McKibbens’s house where I tented out in her backyard with about 40 other women writers, wrote and drank rose-infused vodka and danced with a five-year-old and took workshops and made new friends. All of these things restored my faith in humanity that those other people tried to snuff out. And then I found out that I won the Write Bloody Competition, and that they were going to publish my second book! The universe has a way of working itself out, I guess. Balance.
MAY 2013
May was both the best and worst month of my entire...

MAY 2013
May was both the best and worst month of my entire year. The TV show “Verses & Flow” flew me out to California, picked me up in a limo, put me up in a fancy hotel, and spent the day doing my hair and make-up (read: treated me like a rad celebrity) as I filmed different commercials, shot promotional material, and then performed my poem “Rain (The Seroquel XR Poem) in front of a live studio audience. I walked the red carpet and got to meet some really sweet famous people like Jordin Sparks (pictured above) and Anthony Hamilton. Verses & Flow was truly one of the most rewarding and exciting days in my artistic career - and it was so thrilling to be able to watch myself on TV just a few months later.
That month, I also found out two of my poems would be published by Pen Center USA’s literary journal “The Rattling Wall”, I began teaching my online-course “Poems That Don’t Suck” and I finished and compiled my first draft of my second manuscript (40 poems!) and shipped them off to Write Bloody with fingers crossed.
That month I also got in a huge, violent fight with my family, that left me vaguely homeless from the middle of the month on. So, you know. Glad my New Year’s Resolution of “Balance” decided to bite me in the butt. But I was on TV!
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