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TED Talks Daily Book Club: A Little Daylight Left | Sarah Kay | TED

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October 11, 2025

Sarah Kay is a spoken word poet and the author of the new poetry collection “A Little Daylight Left.” In this TED Talks Daily Book Club interview with host Elise Hu, Kay reflects on her relationship with poetry — from reading the poems her parents left in her lunchbox to frequenting the local dive bar’s weekly poetry slam to becoming an “accidental ambassador” of spoken word. She also talks about how she uses different artistic mediums to invite others into poetry, showing how the art form can open you to community, healing and vulnerability.

The TED Talks Daily Book Club series features TED speakers discussing their latest books and exploring their ideas beyond the page. Stay tuned to our feed for more interviews like this one and for special live book club events open exclusively to TED members. (Recorded at A TED Original Podcast on June 3, 2025

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@Wojakmememaker

October 11, 2025 at 11:08 am

Books are little portals to endless worlds teaching us inspiring us and letting us live a thousand lives from one seat. Every page is a quiet moment of peace and self love in a noisy world.

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- @chaymaakh17
  
  October 11, 2025 at 11:22 am
  
  Ikr ❤
  
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@AL-IRAN-25

October 11, 2025 at 11:08 am

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- @4riaeus
  
  October 11, 2025 at 9:44 pm
  
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@samirsarker9920

October 11, 2025 at 11:24 am

Learning new things for this talk.
Lots of thanks.

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@jaybuckmaster2919

October 11, 2025 at 11:28 am

You are both wonderful woman. Thank you for the video, I loved it. It felt like I was right there with you ladies.❤

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@charlesandrews2419

October 11, 2025 at 12:05 pm

Finding form to the emotion.

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@vimore01

October 11, 2025 at 12:29 pm

Writing poems to discover what it is that my body and mind wants to tell me, that is always what I was trying to accomplish when I was in high school writing verses that rhymed, and how beautiful it ended up sounding was just a nice bonus. Artificial Intelligence could maybe evolve to write endless verses, each one sounding as heavenly as a bed of flowers and milky white Greek temples, yet it will never tell me what it is that my soul aches for. Thank you for this conversation, and thank you for the beautiful poems that you shared.

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