MAY 2013May 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!