Check out our fresh RunDSM tees, courtesy of JayO at Jaytees Apparel (http://jayteesapparel.com/). The best part about them: they glow in the dark! We will be sporting these at the Brave New Voices International Teen Poetry Festival in San Francisco this summer.
Movement 515 is taking off and we’d like to introduce you to our poets! Each poet was asked a series of questions; stop back weekly to see what they had to say .
Introducing…
Leah Rae Waughtal
Leah
The poet that influences me the most is…
Definitely Sarah Kay. From The Moment I Found Her, I Thought.. This Girl Is A Hero. The Way She Writes, Is So Honest. I Have Watched Her On YouTube So Many Times, I Can Recite Her From Memory. She’s Inspirational. She Taught Me That Poetry, At It’s Best, Changes Things. Changes Minds.
If I could read one poem for the rest of my life it would be…
‘Information Man’ By Buddy Wakefield. I Feel Like The Secret To Life Is Inside That Poem, & If I Read It Enough, One Day I’ll Understand What It Means To Be Human.
The best line of poetry I’ve ever written is…
“We Run Ourselves Bleeding Into A Tissue Paper Sky, & Ask The God Our Parents Pray To, All The Questions We Don’t Understand, Like Why Some People Find Our God, With A Bullet & No Note, Or Why Daddy Is Never Coming Home.”
The reason I write poetry is to …
Understand Things Better. To Feel Things Differently. I Write Because I Want To Understand People Better. I Want To Be Deep, Even On My Shallow Days, & Stretch Miles In Every Direction.
To me, poems are like …
Every Ounce Of Honesty In Your Body. Every Time You Should Have Spoken Up, But Didn’t. So Now You Find A Time And A Place, And You Write It Out. Because Honesty Is Irrefutable.
