A documentary film of a Los Angeles senior LGBTQ poetry workshop's culmination event led by Steven Reigns. The workshop is made possible by a grant from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and is supported by The LA Gay and Lesbian Center. My Life is Poetry captures a profound history told through the poetry and images of our senior LGBTQ community.

A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art installation around his imprisonment.