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I have known the writer Leroy Moore for about a decade, and ever since I’ve known him he has been on the front lines fighting for the human rights of disabled people, making art about the issues that are important to him and his community or out promoting the work of other disabled artists and scholars. He is currently promoting his newest book, “Black Kripple Delivers Poetry & Lyrics,” so we sat down to delve inside the mind of one of the fixtures on the Bay Area art and activist scene, Leroy Moore. Check him out in his own words.
M.O.I. JR: Can you tell the people, when did you discover that you had a love for poetry?
Leroy Moore: I was always a writer, but when my father took me to go see the Last Poets in the early ‘80s I knew that was it, and it also flipped what my high school teachers were shoving down my throat: white dead men’s poetry.
Since that show in New York, I wrote more and more poetry, but I didn’t come out publicly until the early ‘90s doing the open mic scene with the Po’ Poets of Poor Magazine, then Molotov Mouths and a group that I started for poets and artists with disabilities of color called Voices: Disabled Poets and Artists of Color.