Sarah Kay – Point B (If I Should Have A Daughter)
Note: I’m slightly biased in this review because Sarah Kay is one of my favorite modern poets. If you’re bored and curious, check the link. It’s an 18 minute presentation, but her first poem, my favorite poem (called Point B) is only three minutes long. It’s really fantastic.
Though this video has been out for 5 months now, I think, a friend of mine who is just as big a fan of Spoken Word Poetry sent this to me a couple of days ago. I would rank her four in every category (except the Q&A portion because there was none). Though it is an extensive speech, I feel like she is completely engaged with her audience. She expressed enthusiastically and clearly her journey and her love and her belief in the ability of Spoken Word Poetry to change lives for the better. She was well organized; everything she said compiled and related to each other. She was not stationary; there was some movement (hand gestures, walking) in her speech. And she didn’t sound like she was trying so hard to impress the audience. She came off as very genuine. Effortlessly interesting.