Dear Ms. Kay, My name is Brenna and I am a 17-year-old high school senior. Please forgive me for my formality because although I feel like I know you from your poetry, (that is already a testament to how talented of a writer and poet you are) and thus simply call you “Sarah” in my head, I know that we are not on a first name basis. I am also a writer and a poet, in fact I am a newly published poet and soon-to-be published again poet, so maybe one day we will cross paths and become on a first name basis. Until then, Ms. Kay, I wanted to share with you how much I appreciate and admire you. You are essentially the reason that I am a poet today. You probably hear that a lot from all your fans, but for me, that is no exaggeration. I was in eighth grade when I discovered you. My eighth grade English teacher used a YouTube video of one of your performances as the introduction to our poetry unit that year. It was a video of you performing your poem “Hands.” From the moment my first v
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