“I will hear the breeze and think it is your laugh returned to the hearth of my ear.”
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“Remember: when they look right through you, you’re still there.”
Congratulations to Guante for topping 100,000 views on this fantastic poem! Watch more from Guante here and here.
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“For a moment we are again together, two aliens trying to find home, & then you leave & I ask questions to an empty room.”
Congratulations to Phil Kaye for topping 100,000 views on this fantastic poem! Watch more from Phil here and here.
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“Like good poems, teenage girls are sharp. Our wit cuts deeply like the scissors we use to cut crop tops out of everything and anything.”
Congratulations to Sophie Priceman for topping 500,000 views on this marvelous poem! Watch more from the 2018 Get Lit Classic Slam here and here.
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“No one asks you where you came from. Or how you got here. Which is good, because you could not answer anyhow.”
Congratulations to Adam Falkner for topping 250,000 views on this great poem! Watch more from Adam here and here.
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“When I say that I am growing old I mean that I have lived long enough to fear death.”
Congratulations to Hanif Abdurraqib for topping 100,000 views on this amazing poem! Watch more from Hanif here and here.
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“You could literally saw a woman in half and it would still be called a magic trick.”
Congratulations to Blythe Baird for topping 1,000,000 views on this amazing poem! Watch more from Blythe here and here.
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“Maybe I should just supplicate myself before you so you can whip me with your menu.”
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“This is not female privilege, this is survival of the prettiest. We are playing the first game we learned how to.”
Congratulations to Blythe Baird for topping 2,000,000 views on this powerful poem! Watch more from Blythe here and here.
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“I’ve heard sharks followed slave ships crossing the Atlantic Ocean, trailing black bodies thrown overboard.”
Congratulations to Porsha Olayiwola for topping 250,000 views on this powerful poem! Watch more from Porsha here and here.
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