“This is far from your last supper. Everything must go. Nothing left except cold, hard cash.”
Congratulations to Alex Dang for topping 100,000 views on this fantastic poem! Watch more from Alex Dang here and here.
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“How are you trying to convince me you’re my safe space when you’ve only put me in unsafe spaces?”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Lanise Prater! Congrats Poet!
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“And I never meant to replicate her, but spend enough time sitting across from someone and you pick up their habits.”
Congratulations to Lily Myers for topping 6,000,000 views on this phenomenal poem! Watch more from Lily Myers here.
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“Hold me down long enough and I’ll figure out how to turn these chains into a crown.”
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“This body knows fear, like a front porch knows welcome. It is always coming home.”
Congratulations to Brenna Twohy for topping 100,000 views on this powerful poem! Watch more from Brenna here and here.
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“Tales from a Black woman working in higher ed…”
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“I have no problem with my body, just the things everyone else seems to assign to it.”
Congratulations to Ashe Vernon for topping 100,000 views on this amazing poem! Watch more from the Women of the World Poetry Slam here.
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“If I cannot embarrass myself around you, then I don’t want to love you either.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Jael Benjamin! Congrats Poet!
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“When she tells me that she loves me and that she has a lying problem on the same day, I know I am completely and utterly fucked.”
Congratulations to Blythe Baird for topping 500,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Blythe here and here.
Blythe’s stunning book, If My Body Could Speak is now available!
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“The men in my family love to say ‘not all men,’ but why is it all women, then?”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Isabella Ramirez! Congrats Poet!
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