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Quarter Life Poetry

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Quarter Life Poetry is a project written and created by Samantha Jayne. It began in January 2015 as an Instagram account.[1] where Samantha would write quatrains and draw doodles about her quarter life crisis. Grand Central published her humor book titled [2]Quarter Life Poetry: Poems For The Young, Broke & Hangry in April 2016. The book was later translated into French,[3] German[4] and Chinese and also released in the UK[5]

Four years later, Quarter Life Poetry premiered as a short form dark-comedy series at the Sundance Film Festival[6] where it was critically acclaimed[7][8] and picked up by FX Networks.[9] Each short-form episode focuses on a different anxiety, oftentimes explored through fantastical reality, spoken word, or music.[10] Samantha wrote and starred in each episode, and Arturo Perez Jr. directed all 9 episodes.

The short form series is part of the FXX television series Cake.[11]

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  1. ^ "Quarter Life Poetry (@quarterlifepoetry) • Instagram photos and videos". instagram.com.
  2. ^ Quarter Life Poetry. June 27, 2017 – via www.grandcentralpublishing.com.
  3. ^ Jayne, Samantha. "Quarter Life Poetry – Rimes pour jeunes, fauchés & en colère". Archived from the original on April 16, 2017.
  4. ^ Samantha Jayne: Quarter Life Poetry. btb Verlag (Paperback, Fiction) – via service.randomhouse.de.
  5. ^ Quarter Life Poetry: Amazon.co.uk: Samantha Jayne: 9780751566673: Books. ASIN 0751566675.
  6. ^ "quarter-life-poetry". sundance.org.
  7. ^ O'Falt, Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, Christian Blauvelt, Ben Travers, Chris; Erbland, Kate; Kohn, Eric; Thompson, Anne; Blauvelt, Christian; Travers, Ben; O'Falt, Chris (February 2, 2019). "Sundance 2019: The 14 Breakout Stars of the Festival You Need to Know".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "'Quarter Life Poetry' and 'Don't Hug Me I'm Scared': TV Reviews | Sundance 2019". The Hollywood Reporter.
  9. ^ Travers, Ben (February 1, 2019). "Big Buys at Sundance Mean Indie TV Is Real, and Gaining Ground".
  10. ^ Filmmaker Staff. ""We Mostly Didn't Shoot Traditional Coverage Because We Knew the Edit Points": DP Drew Daniels on Quarter Life Poetry".
  11. ^ "Cake | FX Networks". fxnetworks.com.
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