Woot! A Published Writer in the House!

Yes.. I'm proud to announce that I'm being published! I wrote this little poem for poetry.com one night and really didn't think much about it. Then a few weeks later, like the other day, I receive and e-mail, then a letter in the mail, saying that my poem has been selected as one of the few that they will be publishing in their new book! They people at poetry.com took my poem, read it, studied it, discussed it, and love it! I couldn't believe it when I first read it. At first I thought, "They get millions of poems, probably thousands a day. Mine isn't special." But they said only so many get published and they thought mine had special creative and artistic qualities! WOW! I didn't even think the poem was that good! lol. Not only are they publishing my poem, I have a chance to win money upwards to $10,000, but I'm being sent a formal invitation to a Poets Symposium being held this November in Hollywood! This just totally blows my mind. I never thought that I would be published until I was like in my forties or something. And here I am, published at 19! What an acheivement, what an honor!