Sarah Kay
Sarah Kay
Sarah Kay is a professor of French at New York University...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth19 June 1988
CityNew York City, NY
phones space phone-calls
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.
mistake night decision
Forgive yourself for the decisions you have made, the ones you still call mistakes when you tuck them in at night
apology excuse metaphor
You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.
self-confidence mouths taste
My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.
brain trying together
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.