“I promise I will catch you like you are the last drop of water.”
Don’t miss this incredible poem from Janae Johnson, performing at Button Poetry Live.
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“Breathless and beleaguered, we coax one another to survive. We are alive despite even our bones’ dissent.”
Don’t miss this amazing poem from Sonya Renee Taylor, performing at Button Poetry Live.
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“I love all of her even if there are aspects of myself she has no desire to learn how to love.”
Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Blythe Baird, featuring at Icehouse in Minneapolis.
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2017 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“If having a gay agenda means believing in my right to continue to breathe despite the way your mouth puckers when you look at me like I have a disease and it’s catching, then yeah, I have an agenda.”
Don’t miss this marvelous poem by Alexandria Hollett, featured contestant from the 2017 Button Poetry Video Contest!
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“America, great melting pot, you’ve boiled me down to resin, clinging to the bottom of the saucepan.”
Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Spencer Brownstein, performing at Button Poetry Live.
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“If you’ve never had a panic attack, there’s a good chance you’ve been an ass
to someone who has.”
Don’t miss this important poem from Andrea Gibson, featuring at Westcott Theater in Syracuse, NY.
Make sure to check out Andrea’s forthcoming book, LORD OF THE BUTTERFLIES.
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“It is okay to feel broken. Broken is where the healing begins. This is where we begin.”
Don’t miss this magnificent poem from Daniel, performing at Button Poetry Live.
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2017 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“Why at times does it feel like there’s nothing left but there is everything?”
Don’t miss this powerful poem by Marcel “Fable the Poet” Price, featured contestant from the 2017 Button Poetry Video Contest!
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“She just don’t know. She just ain’t never had nothing taken from her.”
Don’t miss this astonishing poem from Ajanae Dawkins, performing at the 2018 Rustbelt Poetry Festival in Detroit, MI.
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“You’re beautiful. Beauty like sentiment of desirability, desire like anything other than the fear of being unfulfilled.”
Don’t miss this wonderful poem from Dua Saleh, performing at 7th St Entry in Minneapolis, MN.
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