April 12, 2025

Sarah Kay in Los Angeles for a Little Daylight Left
Join us to celebrate the publication of A Little Daylight Left with a night of poetry & performance, featuring special guests! In this night of joyful connection, Kay will bring her poems to life on stage with her magnetic wit, humor, & compassion. Tickets include a signed copy of the book & an opportunity for book-personalization after the show.

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
1419 North Topanga Canyon Boulevard
Topanga, CA 90290
Door Time: 6:30 pm
Show Time: 7:00 pm
Tickets on sale now!

April 4, 2025

Sarah Kay at The Pavilion at Grace in Providence, RI
Symposium Books welcomes Sarah Kay to the Pavilion at Grace, for a night of performance in celebration of her new poetry collection A Little Daylight Left, featuring special guests. Tickets include a signed copy of the book & an opportunity for book-personalization after the show.

The Pavilion at Grace
300 Westminster Street
Providence, RI 02903
Show Time: 6:00 pm.
Tickets on sale now!

April 3, 2025

Sarah Kay at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated spoken word poet Sarah Kay, founder & co-director of Project VOICE and author of four books of poetry, for a performance of poetry from her new collection A Little Daylight Left, about facing the beautiful & difficult parts of our humanness with curiosity & compassion. Tickets include admission for one + one hardcover copy of A Little Daylight Left pre-signed by the author.

The Brattle Theatre
40 Brattle St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Show Time: 6:00 pm.
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April 1, 2025

A Little Daylight Left Book Launch Show at the Bell House in NYC
Join us to celebrate the publication of A Little Daylight Left, the long-awaited, new collection from acclaimed poet Sarah Kay. Featuring a night of poetry, wit, humor & performance, with special guests. Tickets include a signed copy of the book provided by Books Are Magic & an opportunity for book-personalization after the show. Guests under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Guests over 18 must present valid, government-issued photo ID.

The Bell House
149 7th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Door Time: 6:00 pm.
Show Time: 7:00 pm.
Tickets on sale now!

Recent News: ALDL Available for Preorder

October 17, 2024
Cover Reveal & Available for Preorder!
Sarah’s new poetry collection, A Little Daylight Left is now available for preorder! Lauded poet Sarah Kay brings us her long-awaited second full-length collection, a decade after her acclaimed debut No Matter the Wreckage. In A Little Daylight Left, Kay explores life’s most vulnerable moments of transition with courage, curiosity, joy & humor. Each poem invites readers to consider what it might look like to boldly face the hard things we so often run from—a heartbreak, an ailing loved one, the fear that comes with new beginnings & uncertain futures—& to celebrate what we hold dear. The result is a blueprint for discovering beauty in all that makes us human. With her signature wit & wisdom, Kay shows us how to navigate life bravely, with every single part of ourselves.

Read: Paris Review

Sarah Kay is one of three authors of a weekly poetry/advice column at The Paris Review called “PoetryRx.” Each week, readers write in with a specific emotion and our resident poets (Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz) take turns prescribing poems for their predicament.

November 7, 2024

Stones in the Water: A Night of Poetry with Sarah Kay, Anis Mojgani, Clint Smith, & Hanif Abdurraqib
Sarah Kay, Clint Smith, Anis Mojgani, & Hanif Abdurraqib have performed together annually for the past 8 years! The evening is an opportunity for artists and audience to witness what a rigorous pursuit of care & friendship can do to further our artistic practices.

BAM Fisher, Fishman Space
7:30pm
Tickets on sale Oct 2!

Read: We the Gathered Heat

Sarah Kay’s poem “Ars Poetica 20 Years Later” is featured in We the Gathered Heat, an anthology from Haymarket Books “featuring some of the brightest voices in contemporary poetry who challenge, expand, and illuminate the meaning of the label “Asian American and Pacific Islander” (AAPI) in today’s world,” edited by Franny Choi, Bao Phi, No’u Revilla, and Terisa Siagatonu.