Sarah Kay
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And we made this beautiful web series that I'm still really proud of, which is called There's a Poem for That.
And it's a collaboration between animators and poets.
And so maybe you would watch an animation.
And if you're like, no, thank you, I would like to read a poem.
But maybe that's new to you.
And you're a little nervous about how to read a poem on the page.
And it looks different than you're used to.
And
you're worried that there's a wrong way of doing it and you'd like someone to show you.
There's also a beautiful web series that I helped curate, which is called Ours Poetica.
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