Poetry in Houston and the continuation of wordsmoke

So we have been in Houston for almost a week now and it has been totally awesome! The first thing I've got to say about Houston is this, there is a lot of love in Houston man. Crazy amounts of love and respect haha. Second is that they sure know how to pack the house! There have only been two spots that we have been to so far that had small crowds, and even at those spots either the venue payed us decently or we made decent tips. We have been very well received in Houston and have made a good deal of money since being here. As far as culture is concerned, Houston is far too large to really experience the artistic culture outside of the poetry community, unlike Austin where we experienced quite a bit of it. But so far we have made way more money than we did in Austin and been shown a lot of love so I am quite alright with that.
So, the wordsmoke tour is actually back in action! Me and Lauren Begent (a friend of mine from SLC who met up with us in Nebraska before the original tour split up) are continuing the last of the tour in Texas as wordsmoke for marketing reasons and to protect Deann's name and reputation. Lauren is an amazing musician and an up and coming poet. She plays music at the shows and I do poetry and it actually adds a really awesome and refreshing dynamic to the shows.
We've got one last show in Houston, which is today actually (and will be broad casted on a local TV station here in Houston) and then I'm going to be competing in a slam on Saturday and then we are making our way back up to Austin either by means of craigs list ride shares or hitch hiking for another weeks worth of shows and then we are flying out to California to do another months worth of traveling and shows in Cali and then we are coming home! Much love ya'll... it's funny because I'm in Texas.... he ... he...

- Cody Winger