Sarah Kay - amazing spoken word poet

[makoyi]

I happened across a TED Talk by Sarah Kay yesterday and I was an instant fan so I have to share.  She also has a TEDx here and her own website is kaysarahsera.com.  I love the rhythm and lyrical voice.  I love the imagery and the advice.  Her work is imaginative and evocative and also the sort of work that inspires those qualities in others.  I also really like hearing her talk about getting into poetry in the first of the links - firstly because she's a joy to listen to whether she's performing a poem or telling a story or explaining how she teaches reluctant teenagers, but secondly (and perhaps more importantly) because the way that she tells us the story is kind of magical.  I mean, it's not like "the moment it all began" can ever really be called mundane, but the situation she described could have been, if she'd told it another way.  But she didn't - she told it as her own Call to Adventure, for her own real life story.  I think there's a lesson in life and a lesson in story telling in that for all of us.  Even if you're not normally a poetry fan, give her a chance because she's just amazing.