Quarter Life Poetry Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Quarter Life Poetry (@quarterlifepoetry) • Instagram photos and videos. instagram.com.
2. Book: Quarter Life Poetry. June 27, 2017. www.grandcentralpublishing.com.
3. Web site: Quarter Life Poetry – Rimes pour jeunes, fauchés & en colère. https://web.archive.org/web/20170416164135/http://www.hugoetcie.fr/livres/quarter-life-poetry-rimes-pour-jeunes-fauches-en-colere/. April 16, 2017. Samantha. Jayne.
4. Book: Samantha Jayne: Quarter Life Poetry. btb Verlag (Paperback, Fiction). service.randomhouse.de.
5. Book: Quarter Life Poetry: Amazon.co.uk: Samantha Jayne: 9780751566673: Books. .
6. Web site: quarter-life-poetry. sundance.org.
7. Web site: Sundance 2019: The 14 Breakout Stars of the Festival You Need to Know. Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, Christian Blauvelt, Ben Travers, Chris. O'Falt. Kate. Erbland. Eric. Kohn. Anne. Thompson. Christian. Blauvelt. Ben. Travers. Chris. O'Falt. February 2, 2019.
8. Web site: 'Quarter Life Poetry' and 'Don't Hug Me I'm Scared': TV Reviews | Sundance 2019. The Hollywood Reporter.
9. Web site: Big Buys at Sundance Mean Indie TV Is Real, and Gaining Ground. Ben. Travers. February 1, 2019.
10. Web site: "We Mostly Didn't Shoot Traditional Coverage Because We Knew the Edit Points": DP Drew Daniels on Quarter Life Poetry. Filmmaker Staff.
11. Web site: Cake | FX Networks. fxnetworks.com.