Sarah Kay

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.