Kay, Sarah (sera)

March 20, 2014
Performing and teaching with the Jason Taylor Foundation at Nova High School in Davie, FL!
Sarah had a wonderful time working with the BluApple Poetry Network and the Jason Taylor Foundation. Much thanks to the organizers for putting together a show that was live streamed to other high schools in the area, and to Nova for hosting the event and workshops. And of course lots of love to the incredible young poets who participated!

March 7, 2014
Performing and teaching at the Douglas Anderson Writer’s Festival in Jacksonville, Fl!
What a lovely event. Sarah was absolutely blown away by the talented students she encountered at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. She also loved getting to spend time with the other featured artists of the festival including longtime friend and hero Patricia Smith! Thanks to all the organizers for putting together the festival!

March 6, 2014
Performing and teaching at Timber Creek High School in Sicklerville, NJ!
Project VOICE spent the day at Timber Creek High School, performing and teaching workshops with the students and staff of the Black Horse Pike School District! Much thanks to everyone who came and participated!

March 1, 2014
Performing with Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz at their Double Book Release Celebration in Seattle, WA!
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz’s recently released, highly celebrated collection, “The Year of No Mistakes” and Sarah’s upcoming “No Matter the Wreckage” have an unusual story: Sarah is the editor of Cristin’s book, and Cristin is the editor of Sarah’s! Tonight’s show was a sneak-peak, one-time-only, pre-release performance of poems from Sarah’s up-coming collection (with an opportunity for folks to purchase exclusive advanced copies of the book!) as well as a chance to hear Cristin perform her gorgeous work. Plus, the whole night was hosted by the incredibly talented spoken word poet Derrick Brown, with surprise guest appearance by Phil Kaye! (Thanks to Cristin for the photo!)

February 28, 2014
Featured on the cover of The Writer Magazine!
Sarah is honored to be on the cover of The Writer Magazine, and interviewed by Megan Kaplon for an interior article! Sarah talks about writing, listening, and the challenges of creating her new book, “No Matter the Wreckage.” The article also includes a list of 10 of Sarah’s favorite poems! (She has so many, it was hard to come up with just 10!) Click here for the whole article!

February 27, 2014
Performing at “Write Bloody’s Poetry Honky Tonk Badonkadonk: An AWP Off-Site Event” in Seattle, WA!
Sarah was so excited to debut her new book, No Matter the Wreckage, which made her an official Write Bloody Author! She was so thrilled to perform next to the other unbelievable poets that this publishing company boasts, all performing together for one night only: Derrick Brown, Karen Finneyfrock, Buddy Wakefield, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Brendan Constantine, Jon Sands, Tara Hardy, Aaron Samuels, Mindy Nettifee, Taylor Mali, Bucky Sinister, Jeremy Radin, Stevie Edwards, Jason Bayani, Jade Sylvan, Daniel Nester, Lauren B. Zuniga, Franny Choi, Elaina Ellis, Daniel McGinn, & music from Adam Falkner! Holy smokes! As if the event couldn’t be any more special, Sarah also received an award (or a “Birdie”!) for her “Outreach” work bringing spoken word poetry to wider and wider audiences! Thank you, Derrick! Thank you, Write Bloody!

February 26-March 1, 2014
Helping out at the Write Bloody Publishing Booth at the AWP Conference in Seattle, WA!
Sarah is spending her week at AWP helping out with the Write Bloody Publishing Booth, alongside the other amazing WB authors (seen here with Lauren Zuniga and Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, and the captain of the ship, Mr. Derrick Brown)!