The Button YouTube page recently reached our 3,000th video upload!
Thanks, as always, to all of our watchers, friends, supporters and artists for making this possible. Celebrate this momentous occasion by checking out our 3,000th video, Andrea Gibson performing “Say Yes”.
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“We teach boys that in order to become men they have to kill off their emotional selves.”
Congratulations to Javon Johnson for topping 250,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Javon here and here.
Get Javon’s amazing book, Ain’t Never Not Been Black.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward!
“We become poets in an attempt to tether words to righteousness, our notebooks to social consciousness”
Congratulations to Dominique Christina for topping 250,000 views on this phenomenal poem! Watch more from Dominique here and here.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Robert Wood Lynn!
“Some nights I put on my father’s chalk outline and I teach it how to walk.”
Congratulations to Siaara Freeman for topping 1,000,000 views on this phenomenal poem! Watch more from Siaara here and here.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Robert Wood Lynn!
“Sometimes, ‘I’m fine,’ is the quickest way to say, ‘I don’t want to talk about it.’”
Congratulations to Rudy Francisco for topping 250,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Rudy here and here.
Check out the 2022 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest! Open NOW – January 9, 2023. More info and full guidelines here!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Siaara Freeman!
“A soul mate is not the person who makes you the happiest, but the one who makes you feel the most.”
Congratulations to Sierra DeMulder for topping 100,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Sierra here and here.
Get Sierra’s incredible book, We Slept Here.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Hanif Abdurraqib, Michael Lee, L.E. Bowman, Raych Jackson, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!
“Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must.”
Congratulations to Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye on topping FIVE MILLION VIEWS on this phenomenal poem! Check out more from Sarah and Phil here and here.
Get Phil’s fantastic book, Date & Time.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Hanif Abdurraqib, Michael Lee, L.E. Bowman, Raych Jackson, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!
“I wonder why the depression test asks me to rank how often I cry and not why I don’t cry at all?”
Congratulations to Muna Abdulahi for topping 100,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Toaster here and here.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Hanif Abdurraqib, Michael Lee, L.E. Bowman, Raych Jackson, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!
“I believe masculinity is a wet fish most men are trying to hold onto.”
Congratulations to Rudy Francisco for topping 250,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Rudy here and here.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Topaz Winters, Michael Lee, L.E. Bowman, Raych Jackson, and our forthcoming release from Darius Simpson!
“Hello, love. Hello, moment allowed above the surface like a dolphin at war.”
Congratulations to Toaster for topping 100,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Toaster here and here.
Want to be featured on Button? Submit to the 2022 Video Contest – Submissions open from NOW until August 31!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Hanif Abdurraqib, Michael Lee, L.E. Bowman, Raych Jackson, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!
