October, 2019
On Broadway with Freestyle Love Supreme!
If you’re going to make your Broadway debut, Sarah strongly recommends doing it alongside your lifelong heroes, surrounded by loved ones. What a joy to join the incredible cast and crew of FLS for a few special guest appearances!
Category Archives: Recent News
Recent News: Pop-Up Magazine 2019
October, 2019
On Tour with Pop-Up Magazine!
Sarah tried her hand at her first-ever non-fiction piece, reported and performed for Pop-Up Magazine for their “Escape” Issue! She got to join the incredible team of writers, musicians, and producers, for shows in San Francisco, Oakland, San Diego, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Washington DC, New York, Chicago, and Austin! Pop-Up Magazine is a “live” magazine, and each “issue” comes complete with longform reportage, animation, video, and a live band, in some of the grandest venues, for loyal and enthusiastic audiences. Thanks to everyone at Pop-Up, and everyone in the audiences who came out to see the show!
Recent News: TED 2019
June 21, 2019
Back on the TED Mainstage!
Eight years after her first TEDtalk (“If I should have a daughter…”), Sarah returned to open the 2019 TED conference with a poem called, “A Bird Made of Birds,” which was inspired by Kaveh Akbar’s beautiful line: “The universe has already written the poem you were planning on writing.” Today the video is online!
Recent News: Sincerely, X
May 6, 2019
Hosting “Sincerely, X”!
Sarah is thrilled to announce that she’s the new host for “Sincerely, X” a podcast from TED and Luminary Media. “Sincerely, X” features stories so risky they need to be told anonymously. In each episode, we give light to an idea in hiding, and then we go deeper, exploring those ideas with the help of others. We’re so excited for you to hear these conversations I’ve gotten to be part of. Coming on May 6, exclusively on the Luminary app! Subscribe early to save: luminary.link/ted
Recent News: New Yorker
March 11, 2019
Profiled in The New Yorker!
“On a recent Sunday, the spoken-word poets Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye sat on couches in their dressing room at the Bell House, a Brooklyn concert venue, and composed a set list for their sold-out show…” Sarah has only had two magazine subscriptions in her life. Highlights for Children (as a kid), and The New Yorker. She may have missed her shot at being in Highlights, but she got to cross an item off her bucketlist this week, thanks to Michele Moses’s feature in The New Yorker’s “Talk of The Town” column. Read the whole piece here!
Recent News: February 2019
February, 2019
Open for Business!
Sarah is so excited to announce the opening of shopsarahkay.com, an online store of poem-related objects & items: mugs, pins, totes, posters, cozy sweatshirts, hats, tanks, & tees. This online shop is the newest collaboration between Sarah Kay & Sophia Janowitz (the illustrator of all Sarah’s books, and her lifelong collaborator). It was important to Sarah to find new ways to celebrate & promote Sophia’s art, since Sophia has created & given so much of it to help Sarah’s poetry live beautifully in their books. Now you can directly purchase artful objects Sophia designs!
Recent News: January 2019
Recent News: March, 2018
March, 2018
Going on Tour!
Sarah will be on tour for her new book All Our Wild Wonder through the spring. See the tour dates below to find out when she will be in your neighborhood. (And find details for events on the sidebar to the left.) If Sarah isn’t going to be anywhere near you, never fear. You can order a personally inscribed & signed book from the Strand Bookstore!
Recent News: December 7, 2017
Recent News: October 13, 2017
October 13, 2017
Interviewed for Rookie Magazine!
Alyson Zetta Interviewed Sarah for Rookie Magazine! Check out the interview here.