This book is for readers curious about drama school and how it transforms the actor’s approach to art.

AiR: The Poetry of Art by Summer Hill Seven belongs on your bookshelf next to My Life in Art, Near Acting: The First Six Lessons and The Empty Space by Peter Brook.

The true story of a girl who never had time to be a girl so she never had time to grow up.

My philosophy of acting and thus life transcends anything that resembles philosophy. It is now about what I do and not merely what I think. I experience happiness with a smile. I experience thought with a word. I experience life with action. I act therefore I am!

— Summer Hill Seven, Squircular!

As a child, Summer Hill Seven studied and taught from the Bible and Quran. He became a 5%er and later a youth Imam with the American Muslim Mission. At Richard Stockton College, he served as the first African-American and first two-term student body president. At Princeton University and the New York University School of Law, he emerged as a national student leader in the same year that President Obama became the editor of the Harvard Law Review. After leading a protest & take-over of the dean’s office at the NYU School of Law and establishing the Nelson Mandela Scholarship for the National Black Law Students Association, Seven transformed the paradigm provided by the legal system and pursued an even more powerful vehicle to provoke social change. He found acting. He found theater. Poemedy found him.

Summer Hill Seven created poemedy – a lyrically poetic storytelling form where the past meets the present to create poignant, passionate theater for today and tomorrow. Hang Time! is for tomorrow. —David Lamb, Writer/Producer Platanos & Collard Greens

This is a profound work of art by a very talented and gifted poet. I highly recommend it to all who appreciate the spoken and written word. —Sekou Molefi Baako, Executive Director, Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center-Queens Public LibraryPresident, Black Caucus of the American Library Association

Summer Hill Seven’s ebullient “neo-beat-hip-hop” verse explodes from the page to the stage with a powerful multicultural message! Delightful! —Phil Hubbard, Chair of Performance Studies Department University of Nevada Las Vegas

Summer Hill Seven is an exceptionally gifted writer and performer whose work is both entertaining and thought provoking. —Sanford Robbins Director, Professional Theatre Training Program University of Delaware Fiercely powerful! Jennifer Weaver Daily News of Southern Utah.

Summer Hill Seven provides poetry, essays and plays that are as bombastic as the writings of Amiri Baraka as piercing as Miguel Pinero and as poetic as Paul Laurence Dunbar often all in the same sentence. In addition to the entertainment and intellectual value, these Notes of a Neurotic are specifically designed to heal the emotions of the reader, the speaker and the writer of these words.