Online Program: Poets House Presents: Kay Ulanday Barrett

Poet, performer, and cultural strategist Kay Ulanday Barrett reads from their new collection More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2020), from Jersey City, NJ.

Kay Ulanday Barrett aka @Brownroundboi is a poet, performer, and cultural strategist.  K. has featured at The Lincoln Center, The U.N., Symphony Space, Princeton University, NY Poetry Festival, The Dodge Poetry Foundation, The Hemispheric Institute, & Brooklyn Museum. They are a 2x Pushcart Prize nominee, Best of the Net Split This Rock 2019 nominee, and 2019 Queeroes Literary Honoree by Them.+ Condé Nast. Their contributions are found in Academy of American Poets, The New York Times, Buzzfeed, Asian American Literary Review, Them, F(r)iction, PBS News Hour, Race Forward, NYLON, The Huffington Post, Bitch Magazine, The Advocate, & more. More Than Organs, published by Sibling Rivalry Press (2020) is their second collection. Currently, Kay lives outside of NYC area with his jowly dog and remixes their mama’s recipes whenever possible. https://www.kaybarrett.net/

Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings by poets that are posted on Twitter, Facebook, IGTV, and YouTube and our Archive, on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon.