Sarah Kay
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Am I thinking about what the words are doing physically on the page and the way my eye is pulled across the words?
Or am I thinking about what my face and my voice and my
intonation and my hand gestures are going to be?
What are the tools at my disposal when I start to think about sharing this poem with other people if I decide to share it?
And then if I get all the way to, and now we're building a collection,
then it's a whole different set of questions.
What is this collection for?
What is this collection doing?
Is there an arc?
And what poems serve the arc?
And I want a person reading this collection to go on a journey that
They are rewarded for reading poems in the order in which I place them.
Great, great.
Don't be theoretical about it, be specific.
So yeah, for this collection, so you are correct that I have five books, but I actually, three of those books are single poem hardcover books that I made with my lifelong collaborator, Sophia Janowitz, who provided beautiful art for them.
So three of them are like one poem each.
But I actually only have two collections.
The first one came out 11 years ago.
And then this one just came out in April.
And so it's been a decade of time.