Sarah Kay reads "Titanic"

Sarah Kay reads Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie's poem, "On This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart"
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[@KabobHope]

I like how she reads from her journal in her own handwriting and is so enthusiastic about this poem, revisiting it several times a year. I am glad I am not alone in being poem-haunted. This gives me hope.

[@ourspoetica]

Big fan of those who are big fans of poems! - Paige

[@sntjana9348]

"Poem-haunted," sounds amazing.

[@sanbox-irl]

@@sntjana9348 Edgar Allen Poe coming out of his study, raven: "you're done early", EAP: "poem's haunted", raven: "what", EAP, cocking 19th century musket, getting back in his writing room, "poem's haunted"

[@hatorigirl1202]

This kind of poem is so comforting in the way it's written. You don't have to study to figure out what everything represents and means. The poem explains itself in a way that you feel it deeper and deeper in your gut as it goes on.

[@CanuckMonkey13]

This is a great expression of how I feel about this poem as well.

[@JessieCarty]

"I was in that feeling sorry for yourself state where every hallway is the hallway of your own wretched mind.." Brilliant

[@bersoatprosaatbp]

"Call it unsinkable, though it is sinkable. Embark, embark."

[@TimothyMichealDavid]

"I'm here to apprentice myself to wreckage" will stick with me.

[@capdahat2598]

And Sarah really did! Her first book is called "No Matter the Wreckage" and I've always wondered why she named it that. Now I know :)

[@yuvalne]

"I don't know", said Titanic. "I'm kind of a wreck." Wow.

[@ramayanaroxas5457]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[@xpimpinxdotsx8079]

"Well then be a writer". I think the Titanic just inspired me to become a writer.

[@AzeemaC]

Me: *is almost moved to tears by the poem* Also me: *snorts at words 'ballrooms in you'*

[@ruthiecarroll312]

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[@j3891]

nooo you ruined it for me man ;-;

[@AzeemaC]

@@j3891 Sorry! I didn't mean to!!!

[@roo1080]

I keep coming back to this poem.

[@anniegilpin4173]

Oh, this one hit me hard. “There are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone you’ll ever love.” I too think this will be a poem I come back to again.

[@lethukuthulankosi1160]

"there are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone you will ever loved" This line stand out for me🙌

[@akankshyamahapatra6352]

It finally happened. I saw a poem that wrenched open my heart and I feel so many emotions without being able to distill every single one. Really grateful to this channel for letting me find this gem ❤️

[@nikw3597]

this poem has almost single handedly mended every broken heart ive had so far.

[@mrshumancar]

"Did you see the iceberg coming?" Fantastic! I love it that these poems come at a time when I'm just unwinding before needing to go to bed.

[@Sayj14]

I often revisit Sarah's poems. A couple time a year I'll revisit my favorites: "If I Should Have A Daughter", "Useless Bay", and most often visiting "The Type". Sarah's poems give me hope. It was so wonderful to hear her read her favorite poem. I will repeat these beautiful new words to my heart "I have enough ballrooms".

[@Chocolate_Ache]

"Tell me did you see the iceberg coming?" "I did." Titanic said "And you sailed right into it?" "It was love..." Titanic said

[@ToppyTree]

I had forgotten this poem. I'm so glad I stumbled backed here

[@realg8kepa375]

Loved every second of it. May I recommend the 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner' by S.T. Coleridge? It's the poem I revisit at least twice a year.

[@ourspoetica]

A wonderful poem! I also really love Tiana Clark's "The Rime of Nina Simone" (www.southerncultures.org/article/the-rime-of-nina-simone/). - Paige

[@realg8kepa375]

@@ourspoetica I'll check it out

[@EayuProuxm]

Eeeeeeeeerrkkkkk! is now my favorite quote from any poem

[@anakarenr.5871]

Revisiting this because it answers to some of the events in my life right now, completely different from the ones it answered to the first time I heard it. It's comforting how a single poem seems to change and evolve with me

[@everywhereastory2238]

See how Sarah’s handwriting changes with the rhythm of her reading... 💕

[@firefly-fez]

"Nonsense all the way down" gives me distinct John Green vibes. *sigh* I spend too much time engaging with nerdfighteria content, don't I? ...Distractions of my literary imagination aside, I really love this poem. "Call it unsinkable, though it is sinkable. Embark, embark There are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone you'll ever love." This is such a beautiful sentiment, probably my favourite part of the poem. The contrast between "there are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone you'll ever love" and it's earlier companion, "there are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone I've ever loved" is so striking. That is the reality of hope and heartbreak: you cannot go back to who you lost - but you can always learn to love anew.

[@johnkodhek]

Ha! I thought of John as well.

[@LG-pv8se]

I come back to this poem over and over and over again. I can't get enough

[@lucyjames9256]

Sarah Kay is my favourite

[@wherethesunsets]

What! A POEM!. You know when you find a specific poem, that makes you rediscover and love poetry like the first time all over again. This is one of them for me.

[@probablyjustanotherhuman8714]

I'm back here again, rewatching for the 5th time a beautiful poem, and beautifully read

[@alyssaisasquirrel]

I really love the imagery in this poem and the sense of place it gives. It’s prose-y and I like that.

[@Chocolate_Ache]

"But you arent made of metal!" Titanic said, "Im a writer, I can be anything." I said. "Then be a writer." Titanic said WOW.

[@danielgratz4977]

Staying with this channel is opening my heart to poems that are like labyrinths and poems that wittingly leave me hanging and poems that I'll understand in twenty years or maybe never. But when a poem puts aside the scalpel and opts instead to practice open heart surgery with the cleaver, you best believe I'm split in two.

[@zainabsalman7041]

I really really hope they'll feature Phil Kaye on Ours Poetica too...

[@liz-sp2nf]

I first discovered this poem because Sarah Kay mentioned it in Poetry Rx and I’ve thought about it so much since and then I stumbled across this video over a year later! It’s like a dream come true.

[@melsuperstar6292]

I have listened to Sarah Kay read this poem over and over again. It makes me calm. It also inspired me to write my own poem. Here is my poem. It is written in Afrikaans my home language (I am from South Africa) Die Titanic het gesê Ek vermoed jou taksie lig is af Dit keer my nie Ek wil in klim Ons kan in die geparkeer kar bly sit Ek wil jou in en om my voel Al is dit net vir n rukkie Die Titanic het gesê ek kan maar sink; ek het longe wat my sal help om weer op te kom Die Titanic het gesê ek kan maar danse al is dit net vir n tydtjie, Die dans saal is groot genoeg Ek wil dit alles vir jou sê Die vraag nou is Gaan ek...

[@lillarosagrisen]

I've watched this video so many times now I read the poem aloud along with her. It's just so beautiful, I can't get over it.

[@sarap9431]

"there are enough ballrooms in you" aaaaaahaaa 😭😭 I wasn't quite ready to sob today lol

[@Starresky]

Thank you so much for bringing Sarah back. Her reading of her own work or any work is so enthralling! I felt that down to the pit of my stomach.

[@shrutiiyer6212]

I have a similar feeling about Dreaming boy by Sarah Kay. I re-visit it for inspiration, for joy, for love, for loss and for hope and I cry every time.

[@kujmous]

I don't float like I used to, but my daughter is buoyant bone dry. She still lets me hold the string, though.

[@thealphauser13]

"The trouble with you humans is that you are so concerned with staying afloat. Go ahead, be gouged open by love."

[@natattacc99]

The way Sarah describes how she feels about this poem is how I feel about one of her poems, Extended Development. It moves me, without fail, every time.

[@newcreation19]

I have loved Sarah Kay and now I love this poem. Thank you, OursPoetica team, for sharing it with us. "There are enough ballrooms in you to dance with everyone you'll ever love", that'll really stick with me.

[@clevertiger4223]

Oh! I read something by Sarah several years ago, where she mentioned this poem. And I found a live reading of it by Brown-Lavoie, and it is WONDERFUL in that performance (too I should say, because Sarah reads everything of her own and others' creation wonderfully). But this version has several parts, that the version I found did not have - so thank you, for more pieces of one of my favorite poems. I hope Brown-Lavoie will someday be published, so I can have this poem on a shelf and not just in my heart.

[@darshitajain65]

This is such a gift thank you thank you thank you for bringing this to us. I didnt even know this poem existed and now i have it memorized in the five hours that it has been in my life. thank you!

[@failedmortician]

This is beautiful. Sarah Kay has always been one of my favourites.

[@ionlydressthatway]

This video introduced me to this poem just at the point in my life when I needed it. Thank you.

[@bellasgonemissing9705]

I fell in love with Sarah Kay's poems after first seeing her on this channel. I bought her book and it was the first poetry book I ever properly read. I was beyond excited to see her on here again and the poem was absolutely incredible

[@emalinel]

Oh God....suddenly the Type and how it was written makes so much more sense now. Thanks Sarah for sharing another wonderful poem :)

[@aozunglalongkumer5384]

Man! Repeat mode. The more the poem sinks in, the more my heart breaks yet by the end the hope glows brighter.

[@deepthishetty2999]

" In a 100 years, I will still be writing about this feeling"

[@HSReinhardt]

I'm a huge fan of Sarah's work (I have her book!) and this poem was an amazing choice- Thank you for this excellent video!

[@Ravenlock]

Well, there's my cry for the day. Beautiful.

[@ronnedejong7641]

I want to cry, but don't know why I can't.

[@kurrdapya908]

One of best poems spoken through one of the best voices. I have never felt this thankful in my life

[@Stuman57]

I checked the time when I almost clicked away from this video. Something told me though, that Sarah would eventually hit something in telling this story that would hit something in me because she usual does. I stuck it out till the end and I am sooo glad I did. I write this with a tear in my eye. Good Job Sarah. Thanks

[@SkidMcmarxx]

Fantastic poem and wonderfully brought, thank you.

[@karid9041]

I love that part about how humans can sink beneath the waves and come up again. Because we're NOT ships, when we sink we don't have to stay down forever.

[@mustardsfire22]

Titanic has puns. "I don't know. I'm kind of a wreck." xDDDD

[@Neongreenravoe]

This also sounds like a conversation between someone young and their grandmother who has experienced life

[@jonathantrauner3742]

Sarah Kay, thank you for inspiring every single day my Oscar Academy Award victory speech moment. I turn 26 years old this May I am a writer storyteller and artist and I live in Jerusalem Israel.

[@philippinepalestra]

Me already in tears at the 3:00 mark, and kilometers deep at the end....

[@deademcee]

Sarah Kay. Just so glad you’re alive. You and your brother are treasures to the written word. Love you guys

[@zainabsalman7041]

Amazing poem. It's also interesting how one of Sarah's books is called "No Matter the Wreckage" - this poem gives me an idea where that may have come from.

[@nopapajones4254]

I remember watching Ted talk in 5th grade and Sarah Kay spoke. I grew up with an abusive mother and when Sarah Kay spoke about if she had a daughter it made me cry back then.

[@anna-mariejenks1438]

I have such a deep appreciation for Sarah Kay ❤

[@merstefani]

This is amazing. Every single time.

[@brid101286]

I love this thanks Sarah for always being awesome 💖

[@TwinkTwinkle]

Amazing! I think I'll be rewatching this video many a time.

[@jurajb7711]

I've never cried from a poem before this, thank you

[@lanahsophie]

I love you so much Sarah Kay u inspire me a lot in my spoken word poems I fight not to copy exactly how you sound pose write but to only look up to you Dear Sarah Kay.....I love you

[@keerthanasharma4831]

Wow. Just. Wow.

[@WhichDoctor1]

Holy shit! That hit me so hard, over and over again... like my heart was a punching bag. Its the first thing Ive heard on this channel that's spoken to me at all and wow, just wow

[@amandalove3368]

Such a beautiful poem can only be recited by Sarah Kay.

[@jessthemess929]

This got me teary-eyed. I'm really glad I watched it.

[@EayuProuxm]

This is the longest poem I've listened to on this channel so far but it felt like the shortest.

[@katiajannai2142]

I adore Sarah Kay so glad KZbin suggested this to me

[@musicalnerds101]

That’s so beautiful!!

[@taylorbrown509]

“There are enough ballrooms in you”

[@hopegold883]

There are?

[@taylorbrown509]

Hope Gold ..Even if it doesn’t feel like it right now, there are.... the Titanic said so

[@wendydavidson1589]

I'm still thinking of this poem and have the sneaking suspicion that I always will.

[@littleprince12]

Her voice is so beautiful

[@dwindlebunny]

I really like her voice and I really like this poem.

[@elylozada9576]

I'm glad to have this. Today especially.

[@padafthardaytolah5758]

“I am a writer. I can be made of anything.”

[@sergioinfante417]

Thank you for reading this! I wasn't sure to do this... And I will.

[@aarjupoudel9986]

This brings me peace like no other poem♡

[@faatimahfarhad1523]

OMG I am already a fan of Brown-Lavoie. I don't know if it was Kay's narration or the extended metaphor similar to her own poems that it feels like Kay wrote it herself . Gahh💔💔

[@Arcadianss]

Her voice is so soothing

[@racellesalinguhay3266]

I STAN SARAH KAY 🥺❤️

[@s0om1r3]

Sarah Kay can cure all my sadness away, I'm pretty sure

[@luisespineira9882]

I love how you use your handwriting to read the poem. I met you through Twitter and now follow you here.

[@ruthiecarroll312]

It's quite a long and intense poem, but I would love to hear y'all do TS Eliot's Prufrock! One of my absolute favorite poems (and poets) that I never get tired of.

[@genicadelara5243]

I truly love every poem you read.

[@loveseek]

Thank you. I needed this tonight. 🥰

[@fromscratchauntybindy9743]

Oh. My. Heart. Thank you Sarah

[@psicolinamx]

I love it, has this one poem just devoured me?

[@daaaneca]

I am stunned at the beauty of this

[@mylizzylove1]

On This the 110th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic...

[@beadenise]

Original performance here if anyone’s interested! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWO0Z3ylg52imqc

[@MukamiWNjeru]

This is beautiful. I will share it with my friend Edzweeeeeeeeeny in a while.

[@maidenwarrior19]

I come back here often.

[@kaylastarr3822]

That was so amazing.

[@penguinlover2274]

Oh my god?! This is amazing