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Lauren Whitehead is a poet who write many poem and had try to help children from failing into a trouble life. She is a directed or a counselor at a group call youth speaks. This program or group help young children with expressing their self in writing on either paper or speaking out in a large crowd of people. There are many students in the program who are from different background that had went through or faces some kind of problem while growing up. Writing poem help many people express their feeling and thoughts. It also help with people being more open to things that they come across to.
I agree that poetry does save many lives because I know that a lot of people expresses the way they feel by writing their thoughts and ideas down on paper instead of telling someone face to face. For example, in the video that we saw in class there was many poetry spoken word youths team being form because it help many of the young youth living in good or bad environment speak up and make a change in their life. They get to express how they feel towards something, tell about incidents that occur in their life, or just anything that they want to out of their chest.
An example from Brave New Voices was seeing youth that has disability being proud and excited about trying to make it in a team competing with other youths around the world. They are learning new thing through poetry, making changes within their self, and reflecting on their life. Many people are super passionate about spoken word poetry.
Poetry keep the youth out of trouble and I guess that writing poem is a way for many people to relax, cool off when they are angry, clear their head, and make them feel happier or better.