TED Talk // If I Should Have A Daughter

The beginning of the video Sarah Kay performs one of my favorite poems.The poem is about what kind of mother she would be. She poetically describes that she's going to teach her daughter how to live life the fullest and that trouble won't last forever. Also that when she's down her mother will be there for her because that's how her mother was. She end the poem with the line: "And when they finally hand you heartache, when they slip war and hatred under your door and offer you handouts on street-corners of cynicism and defeat, you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother." and I absolutely love that.

Then proceeds with her Ted Talk about spoken word poetry, she says spoken word poetry is poetry that doesn't want to stay on the paper. She mentions he love for poetry began her freshman year of high school. The first time that she performed her poetry she got amazing responses from her peers and that's what kept her going with spoken word poetry. Then she started going to poetry open mics with her parents and got great support from the older poets she met.

Something that really resonates with me is during he talk she says: Spoken word poetry is accessible to anyone, that everyone has stories to tell. I love that. I am personally a slam poet or spoken word poet.


I chose this ted talk because I love this poem and I had a very similar situation to Sarah Kay and I look up to her.




https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter#t-306662