Youth Workshop with Sarah Kay

A Map of Who I am and Where I’m Headed

What makes a good map? How do you decide what landmarks to include and disregard, what keys are necessary for legibility? Who is the map for and what do they already know? What might require translation or illustration or guidance? So many of these questions can also be asked while writing poems! In this generative workshop, we will use map-making as a lens to examine and discuss contemporary poetry, and practice honing an authentic voice and story—communicated with vibrant, compelling language that moves others—in the direction we want them to move!

Sarah Kay

Sarah Kay is a writer, performer, and educator from New York City. She is best known for her talk at the 2011 TED conference, which garnered two standing ovations and ha sbeen seen over thirteen million times online. Sarah has shared her poems in cornfields in Iowa, an orthodontist office in Nepal, a viking ship on a fjord in Norway, a nightclub in Singapore, the Royal Danish Theater in Denmark, Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Kennedy Center in DC, the back rooms of dive-bars, middle school gymnasiums, and once on top of someone’s dining room table. Her poetry can be found on Netflix tv shows, Uniqlo t-shirts, and bookstore shelves. She is the author of four best-selling books of poetry including “B,” “The Type,” “No Matter the Wreckage,” and “All Our Wild Wonder.” Sarah holds a Masters Degree in The Art of Teaching from Brown University and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Grinnell College. She is the founder and co-director of Project VOICE, an organization that uses spoken word poetry to entertain, educate, and inspire students and teachers worldwide.

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Open to teens aged 13-18. Registration is free but space is limited.