AJ Houston

AJ Houston is the son of Jimmie Jay and Birdie Lee Houston. He is the middle child with an older brother and sister and two younger sisters. He would say he has been a writer, poet all of his life. After memorizing all of the Dr. Suess books his mother read to him, he believed Dr. Suess created all of his characters from nothing, from thought. He spends his days with pen and paper attempting to discover his nothings to create everything from.

“A poem should not say, but be.” Is a quote from Ars Poetica gifted him by his high school English teacher, he has carried with him as a motto. One of his favorite quotes he has penned is, “if a picture is worth a thousand words each poem should be worth a thousand pictures.” The description of writing and painting has to be the same process is the goal he offers to students in his create it writing classes. Creating a formidable follow through with every day is his answer to anyone pouting writers block or being stuck in pause while writing.