Storytelling Through Poetry - Life After Music School
I have finally gotten to the point where my poems have been individually edited enough to where I can start placing them in the story order that will be most impactful for myself and (hopefully) the reader. But during my last meeting with my editor Micaela, she mentioned something that I feel I'm ready to share. Part of the editing process for us is going poem by poem and identifying key emotional poems that could be pivotal depending on where they are placed in the collection. This was when Micaela mentioned that despite my undergrad being in music, there is a infinitesimal amount of poems that mention music, let alone my being a musician. That's because I burned out. Since I could remember, music was in my life either through church gospel groups, piano lessons, playing violin, school choirs, musicals, voice lessons, and ultimately making the decision to pursue music in college. I loved it, and I eventually made it who I was to the point that if I wa...