No Matter The Wreckage By Sarah Kay

Sarah Kay is a poet from New York City, who is also a poetry teacher, the founder and co-director of the V.O.I.C.E project. Sarah wrote many books some being best selling ones including "B" and "No Matter The Wreckage". She took place in many different conferences as a speaker and as a listener. Her most famous speech was at the Ted Talk conference in 2011 where she walked the audience through a journey, her own journey, and what it was like to grow up loving poetry. Her speech seems beautifully thought through and flawlessly delivered.

The main idea behind Sarah's speech was to let people know, that they are more than welcome to open their hands, palms facing the sky, letting all the bad with the good to come at them, instead of crossing
At first she begins with her poem, fast and poetic and then her poem seems to be cut off by a standing ovation. When she starts talking again, that is when you understand that everything she said before was the part of a poem and this, is the actual speech about to happen. The way she talks and controls her breath not only gives you the impression of her being a professional, but it also draws a fine line between the poem and the speech itself, thus making it easier to understand everything. After her small but liberating poem, she asks the audience a question and waits for them to think about it. This lets the audience leave the feeling of "watching a person talk" behind and adopt the feeling of intimacy, friendship and comfort zone. She enjoys laughing and making other people laugh which you can hear in her toning and her literal jokes thrown at the audience throughout the speech. Sarah Kay performs in front of thousands of people from all over the world who were interested enough to "hear her" instead of "waiting for their turn to talk", as Sarah mentions in her speech. Being from New York City, Sarah is lucky to have an accent as clear as she does, because this way more people are likely to understand what she says the first time she says it. With a page of her diary shown in the background, as said before, and the way she uses her hand gestures, mimics and body becomes a language on its own. Her body movement follows her voice. She raises her hands when her voice goes up. "I was only five years old!" she raises her voice while putting her hand up, emphasizing on the word "five." The way she tones her words, leave you