In this video, Sarah Kay reads her poem “Jakarta, January” at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture in New York City. Kay is the author of No Matter the Wreckage (Write Bloody Publishing, 2016) and the forthcoming book, All Our Wild Wonder (Hachette, 2018), illustrated by Sophia Janowitz.
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