“My first performance poem was about how sometimes I was teased for being manly, or a tomboy or whatever. It was saying how just because I looked a certain way and displayed myself a certain way didn't mean that I wasn't also a feminine human...a woman if you will.” IfsWayFirstsHumansMeanSometimesCertainPerformancesFeminineManly Author:Sarah Kay
“Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred times, and chopped up and put back together, etc. Occasionally, though rarely, a poem just plops out of my head fully-formed. But always it is a blueprint of what my brain is trying to navigate at that moment.” TryingSometimesMomentsTogetherBrainMonthsHundredEtcThat MomentBack TogetherNavigateBlueprintsPuzzling Author:Sarah Kay
“Thinking about writing as an act of celebration is sometimes a helpful framework for me. It allows me to prioritize what I want to call attention to and what I want others to know about me. It makes me ask: What is worth celebrating?” ThinkingKnowsWantWritingSometimesAsksAttentionCelebrateHelpfulCelebrationFrameworkPrioritize Author:Sarah Kay
“Poetry is like pooping. If there is a poem inside of you, it has to come out. Sometimes it can be really difficult and take longer than you'd like (it may even be painful), but other times it can be really easy and happen much faster than you expected. But either way - it is important, and it feels so much better when it's done.” IfsWayFeelsMayImportantSometimesDoneHappensEasyDifficultPainfulExpectedFasterPoetry Is Author:Sarah Kay
“Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or I get to the end of the poem and I still haven't figured anything out, but at least I have a new poem out of it.” WritingStillsEndsSometimesHardHelpingAbleHavensHard TimesHelp Me Author:Sarah Kay
“You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.” SometimesUsedSpaceForgetFitPhonesEmptinessFillingPhone CallsPostcards Author:Sarah Kay
