In honor of LitQuake, The Vine will celebrate the power of the spoken word with Grace Cathedral's Arist-in-Residence, Poet Sarah Kay. Sarah will preach, and Rev. Annie Pierpoint-Mertz, Bay Area slam poet, will offer original spoken word prayers throughout the evening.
At the heart of the Christian and Jewish traditions is the story of a God who speaks the cosmos into being. The ancient Greeks used the word "poein," which inspired our word "poetry," to talk about building or making something. The average American reads more words in one day than an ancient read in her entire lifetime. We live in a world filled with words, and yet, paradoxically, starved of meaning. How do we rediscover the word's power? Sarah will help us reconnect with the visceral experience of speech, as she explores the relationship between divine and human creativity in the spoken word.
Sarah Kay is the founder and co-director of Project VOICE, an organization dedicated to promoting empowerment, improving literacy and encouraging empathy and creative collaboration in classrooms and communities around the world through award-winning performances and innovative workshops. Sarah hails from New York City and has been performing her spoken word poetry since she was 14 years old. She was a featured poet on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam in 2006, and that year she was also the youngest poet to compete in the National Poetry Slam. Since then, Sarah has shared her poetry in venues and classrooms around the world. She is perhaps best known for her talk at the 2011 TED conference that has been viewed over ten million times. Sarah holds a Master’s Degree in the Art of Teaching from Brown University, and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Grinnell College. Her first book, “B” was ranked #1 Poetry Book on Amazon. “No Matter the Wreckage,” is also an Amazon Bestseller in American Poetry. Other poems and articles have been published in CURA Magazine, The Writer Magazine, Thrush, Treehouse Magazine, Union Station Magazine, the Huffington Post, CNN.com and many more. She has performed for the Tribeca Film Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors and the United Nations.
In honor of LitQuake, The Vine will celebrate the power of the spoken word with Grace Cathedral's Arist-in-Residence, Poet Sarah Kay. Sarah will preach, and Rev. Annie Pierpoint-Mertz, Bay Area slam poet, will offer original spoken word prayers throughout the evening.
At the heart of the Christian and Jewish traditions is the story of a God who speaks the cosmos into being. The ancient Greeks used the word "poein," which inspired our word "poetry," to talk about building or making something. The average American reads more words in one day than an ancient read in her entire lifetime. We live in a world filled with words, and yet, paradoxically, starved of meaning. How do we rediscover the word's power? Sarah will help us reconnect with the visceral experience of speech, as she explores the relationship between divine and human creativity in the spoken word.
Sarah Kay is the founder and co-director of Project VOICE, an organization dedicated to promoting empowerment, improving literacy and encouraging empathy and creative collaboration in classrooms and communities around the world through award-winning performances and innovative workshops. Sarah hails from New York City and has been performing her spoken word poetry since she was 14 years old. She was a featured poet on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam in 2006, and that year she was also the youngest poet to compete in the National Poetry Slam. Since then, Sarah has shared her poetry in venues and classrooms around the world. She is perhaps best known for her talk at the 2011 TED conference that has been viewed over ten million times. Sarah holds a Master’s Degree in the Art of Teaching from Brown University, and an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Grinnell College. Her first book, “B” was ranked #1 Poetry Book on Amazon. “No Matter the Wreckage,” is also an Amazon Bestseller in American Poetry. Other poems and articles have been published in CURA Magazine, The Writer Magazine, Thrush, Treehouse Magazine, Union Station Magazine, the Huffington Post, CNN.com and many more. She has performed for the Tribeca Film Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors and the United Nations.
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