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Sarah Kay is the author of four books of poetry: B, The Type, All Our Wild Wonder, & No Matter the Wreckage. You can purchase signed copies of all four books at her online shop!
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.
Sarah Kay’s Poem “In the House With No Doors” as published by the Academy of American Poets for their Poem-A-Day series, chosen by guest editor Hieu Minh Nguyen.
Sarah Kay’s Poem “Unreliable” as published in Issue Forty of The Adroit Journal
Sarah Kay’s Poem “Mrs.” as published in The New York Times’ Mrs. Files, which looks at history through a contemporary lens to see what the honorific “Mrs.” means to women and their identity.
Sarah Kay’s Poem “Jakarta, January” as published by the Academy of American Poets for their Poem-A-Day series, chosen by guest editor Clint Smith III.
Sarah Kay’s Poem “The Places We Are Not” as published by Buzzfeed Reader.
Sarah Kay’s Poem “They Give Him a Medal When His Parachute Fails to Open” as published in Boaat Journal.
Sarah Kay’s essay “Flowers Slipped into Shattered Glass: Memories of Being a Thirteen Year Old New Yorker on September 11, 2001” as featured on Human Parts.
Sarah Kay’s poem “On the Discomfort of Being in the Same Room as the Boy You Like” is included in “Learn Then Burn 2“, an anthology that features entertaining, accessible poems with easy to grasp lessons for high school and colleges alike. Edited by Tim Stafford for Write Bloody Publishing.
Sarah Kay’s poem “The Type” is featured in “We Will be Shelter“, an anthology of contemporary poems that addresses issues of social justice. The goal of We Will be Shelter is to raise awareness, encourage critical self-reflection, and call readers to action, and it is edited by poet and activist Andrea Gibson.
Sarah Kay’s poems “Forest Fires” and “Private Parts” are featured alongside other amazing poets in the Write Bloody Anthology, “Courage: Daring Poems for Gutsy Girls,” edited by Karen Finneyfrock, Mindy Nettifee, and Rachel McKibbens.
Sarah Kay’s poem, “The Oak Tree Speaks” as published in Thrush Poetry Journal.
Sarah Kay’s Poem “Yolk” as published in Treehouse Magazine. (With corresponding Audio!)
“Peacocks,” as published in the June 2011 issue of the Literary Bohemian.
Sarah Kay’s essay on the “Encyclopedia of Human Experience” as published by CNN in May 2011.