Poetry is Like Pooping

So says the effervescent spoken word poet Sarah Kay.  Sometimes it's easy. Sometimes it's hard. Sometimes takes longer than you want. Times it comes very fast.

Sarah Kay - Spoken Word Poet at TED 2011

The session was called Beauty, Imagination and Enchantment.  And Sarah Kay enchanted the audience.  The youngest speaker at 22, Sarah has been doing spoken word poetry since she was 14.  I loved her expression that she showed up to each poem with a backpack full of experiences!  At 22, it was probably a relatively small backpack.

This camera angle shows the glorious backdrop on the stage, which had different images projected on it for each different session at TED2011.