The New Yorker Crossword Puzzle
Sarah Kay & Ross Trudeau collaborated on this special crossword puzzle for the first day of National Poetry Month
Category Archives: Other Projects
Other Projects: Ours Poetica
“Ours Poetica” Web Series
Sarah Kay is the co-curator of Season 2 of “Ours Poetica,” a web series made in partnership with the Poetry Foundation and Complexly, that makes poetry personal, in the hands of people who love it.
Other Projects: Sincerely, X
“Sincerely, X” Podcast
Sarah Kay is the host of Season 2 of “Sincerely, X” from TED. The podcast brings to light ideas in hiding, from guests who have to stay anonymous in order to share them.
Other Projects: TED-Ed
“There’s a Poem for That” Animated Poetry Webseries
Sarah Kay was a producer on the animated poetry web series “There’s a Poem for That” from TED-Ed, which brings together an incredible roster of poets and world-class animators to give us new interpretations of poems that tackle some of life’s biggest feelings.
Other Projects: Poetry Rx
“Poetry Rx” for The Paris Review Online
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 the resident poets (Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire Schwartz) take turns prescribing poems for their predicament.
Other Projects: Blindspotting
Blindspotting (2018 Movie)
Sarah had the joy and honor of getting to be a tiny role in the film Blindspotting (as “Angela” the gentrifying real estate agent), alongside Rafael Casal & Daveed Diggs!
Other Projects: Uniqlo
Uniqlo SPRZ Poetry Beyond the Page
Sarah had the honor of collaborating with the Japanese clothing company Uniqlo to design 8 t-shirts that use original lines from her poetry and her poetry with Phil Kaye, featured and sold around the world.
Other Projects: Bars
#Bars Workshops
The #BARS Workshop is a lab series created by Rafael Casal & Daveed Diggs that investigates the intersection between contemporary verse and Theater. Sarah Kay is one of a few visiting mentors who leads a master class on storytelling as part of the curriculum, and has participated in the culminating projects: digital medleys of short verse vignettes written and performed by the workshop cohort, tied together by a common theme, all scored live and shot in one take in front of a live audience. See the first #Bars Medley here and the second #Bars Medley here. Find out more about the class here.
Other Projects: Brief But Spectacular
Brief But Spectacular
If you had two minutes to give the world your take, what would you say? Each week, PBS NewsHour’s new series “Brief but Spectacular” features some of the brightest minds of today, offering passionate takes on topics they know well. The first installment features poet Sarah Kay’s take on gratitude.
Other Projects: Process of Becoming
The Process of Becoming
On November 14, 2015, Planet.org launched a campaign for “Earth” on Facebook, in an effort to raise awareness on the issue of Climate Change. As part of an effort to inspire Facebook’s global audience of 1.5 billion people, Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye teamed up with the Future of Storytelling and Voyager to present a film of Sarah’s poem “The Process of Becoming.”
