Local Poetry Spotlight: Leaf Running-rabbit

Leaf Running-rabbit has lived in a completely off-grid property in Ward for 34 years, moving in when he discovered a squatter’s shack, a cabin built as a temporary camp for miners. He ultimately lived with his family in the cabin for 17 years before being required to build a house to legal code, receiving his certificate of occupancy of the new house in 2009.

In the late 1990s, he attended the University of Colorado Boulder tuition-free for five years through a Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood, earning a double major in poetry and Spanish. He feels that true poetry is an art form that can articulate feelings and experiences beyond the words written on the page.

He has particularly focused on a form he calls photopoetics, where he takes photographs and writes poems that go together. He loves that the photo and poem can both say things that the other can’t and work together to leave an impact on the reader (and viewer) of the work.

Through his writing, he aims to use words to communicate experiences that can’t be described with words, such as spirituality, enlightenment, and consciousness. He believes that using the right words can allow people to understand concepts beyond words.

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