By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, Button Poetry hopes to broaden poetry’s audience, to expand its reach and develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form.
Tim Raymond is an autistic and nonbinary writer based in South Korea. Their fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Chicago Quarterly Review, Joyland, and Witness, among other publications. They contribute comics to ONLY POEMS regularly and post stories and… MORE
Ayanna Florence is a spoken word poet, author, and creative from Chesapeake, VA. A born writer and performer, she prides herself in creating work that is thought-provoking, emotion-evoking, and fearless. Since her introduction to slam poetry at 16… MORE
Buddy Wakefield is an actor, writer, producer, and three-time world champion spoken word artist featured on the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, ABC Radio National and has been signed to both Sage Francis’ Strange Famous Records as well… MORE
