Performed for Poetry Observed & Button Poetry in Minnesota
“No wonder we dream of being crucified on crosshairs, no wonder we love to stand in the scope. How could you want anything else?”
Don’t miss this poem from Sam Van Cook, performing performed for Poetry Observed & Button Poetry in Minnesota
Shop Button Poetry.
Performed at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
“The gun thought it would never leave the classroom.”
Don’t miss this poem from Clint Smith, performing at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
Get Clint’s book, Counting Descent.
Performed at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
“There was a little Black girl so full of words that spilled like coffee stains to her mama’s blouse.”
Don’t miss this poem from Bri Esoteric, performing at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
Shop Button Poetry.
Performed at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“I pick the sweetest parts and unwrap them to taste the bittersweet of not yet weeping.”
Don’t miss this poem from Stratusfier, performing at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
Shop Button Poetry.
Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
“How many servings from the melting pot did it take for you to arrive at this conversation?”
Don’t miss this poem from Kevin Yang, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
Shop Button Poetry.
Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“Teach me to be a person without a nation, on the other side of enslavement. I will write to you always.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown, performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
Shop Button Poetry.
Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
“We are the rich dropping lint into the open waiting hands of the needy.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
Get Sierra’s book, Ephemera.
Performed at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“Crimson spews from my tongue as my professor tells us that to speak a language is to tell the story of survival.”
Don’t miss this poem from Mariama Savage, performing at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
Shop Button Poetry.
Performed in NYC
“It seems our stories always end this way, but then again it seems we never have the chance to write them.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC
Get Sean’s book, Hated for the Gods.
Performed at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
Get Andrea’s book, You Better Be Lightning.
