Sarah Kay

And the visual is the text on the screen, but the audio is either the poet who wrote that poem or somebody who loves that poem so much reading it for you.

And so you get to see how this person would read this text on page.

So I'm always trying to figure out

Where can I meet you, person who perhaps doesn't know that poetry might be for you yet?

Well, two different things.

The writing looks different from the collection creation.

The writing of each individual poem is, I think for me, I have learned that I have been reaching for poetry my entire life.

And the reasons I reach for it are sometimes new and the moments in which I reach for it sometimes new, but the reaching is not.

And that might be one of the oldest parts of me.

And I think a common denominator of the instances in which I'm reaching is often when I have something that I am trying to figure out in

And I often think of poem as a verb.

And sometimes when I can't understand something and I'm wrestling with it, I have to poem my way through it.

And then I get to the end of the poem and I go, oh, that's what was going on.

And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and I still don't know what's going on, but at least I have a new poem out of the situation.

And so for me, it's not super romantic.

It's not like, oh, I'm inspired and the muse visits and out comes a poem.

It's more like math.

It's more like I'm doing a math equation in another language.

And as soon as I poem my way through it, that's the puzzling.

And so I write the poems for my own brain and heart.