“I grew up learning how to protect men who hate me.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button Playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the Button YouTube channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Crystal Valentine, Aaliyah Jihad, and Ellyn Touchette. Congratulations poets!
Danez Smith’s new chapbook, Black Movie, is now available for order! Check it out in the Button store. Get it by midnight CST tonight for a signed copy!
“I used to be something. Someone wrapped in entirety. I used to be answers, semesters of filled-in bubble sheets.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Shavontae Patrick and Zev Verdoner. Congratulations poets!
“My Spanish is an itchy phantom limb. It is reaching for words and only finding air.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Kelsey Warren, and Carrie Rudzinski. Congratulations poets!
“Tell her to take a good long look at love. Her father gripping the throat of a pay phone, her mother slamming the screen door until the door flinched.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Sierra DeMulder, Gabriel Green, and Saidu Tejan-Thomas. Congratulations poets! Make sure to check out Sierra’s book in the Button Shop!
“Depression wasn’t an endless grey sky, it was no sky at all.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Neil Hilborn and Victoria Morgan. Congratulations poets!
Sierra DeMulder’s new chapbook, We Slept Here, is now available for order in The Button Shop. Check out this video of Sierra performing a poem from the book!
“She says, ‘funerals are like birthday parties, except better. No one wastes money on presents, and everyone dresses up for the theme.’ ”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Maxine Wright, Phil Kaye, Darius Simpson, Scout Bostley, and Matt Coonan. Congratulations poets!
Darius Simpson & Scout Bostley’s poem, “Lost Voices”, from this year’s College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational Finals, has gone viral, with write-ups from The Huffington Post, Mic.com, DailyKos, APlus, Seventeen, and more! Congratulations to the poets and their team, Eastern Michigan University, who placed third at the tournament!
Hey Button Fans! In case you missed it, we’ve released two amazing new books this spring: Mahogany L. Browne’s smudge and Neil Hilborn’s Our Numbered Days! Check out all our books and merch at the Button Shop, and stay tuned for the great authors we’ll be publishing in the coming months!
