IN-PERSON | Sarah Kay at The Brattle Theatre

Harvard Book Store welcomes celebrated spoken word poet Sarah Kay—founder & co-director of Project VOICE and author of four books of poetry—to celebrate the publication of her long-awaited new collection, A Little Daylight Left, with a night of poetry and performance, featuring special guests. A decade after her beloved debut No Matter the Wreckage, Kay is back capturing life’s most vulnerable, messy, and uncertain moments. In this night of joyful connection, Kay will bring her poems to life on stage with her magnetic wit, humor, and compassion. Guest poet Amanda Torres—writer, educator, arts administrator, creative producer, and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education—will open the presentation. Following Sarah Kay’s reading, she will be joined by Sophia Janowitz—Art Director for Mobi in Somerville who made drawings for five of Kay’s book—for a conversation.

Ticketing

Tickets include admission for one and one hardcover copy of A Little Daylight Left pre-signed by the author.

About A Little Daylight Left

From somewhere down a hallway of locked doors, a voice asks, / What if you aren’t as bad as you suspect you are? / What if you’ll never be as good as you ache?

Beloved spoken word poet Sarah Kay brings us her long-awaited second full-length poetry collection, a decade after her acclaimed debut No Matter the Wreckage. In A Little Daylight Left, Kay explores life’s most vulnerable moments of transition with courage, curiosity, joy, and humor. Each poem invites readers to consider what it might look like to boldly face the hard things we so often run from—a heartbreak, an ailing loved one, the fear that comes with new beginnings and uncertain futures. The result is a blueprint for discovering beauty in all that makes us human. With her signature wit and wisdom, Kay shows us how to navigate life bravely, with every single part of ourselves.