2018 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“Sometimes, I just want to be Muslim without feeling like that’s something brave, because sometimes I don’t want to be brave.”
Don’t miss this incredible poem by Sana Mayat, a selection from the 2018 Button Poetry Video Contest!
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Featuring at Icehouse.
“I learned love as taxidermy, the careful art of keeping alive a dead thing.”
Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Blythe Baird, featuring at Icehouse in Minneapolis.
Blythe’s book, IF MY BODY COULD SPEAK, is now available!
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Performing at Button Poetry Live.
“I never thought that my tongue would betray me the way it had others.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Kofi Dadzie, performing at Button Poetry Live.
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Featuring at the 2018 Get Lit Classic Slam.
“There’s a good chance I’m a bad person; trying to do something right.”
Don’t miss this magnificent poem from Buddy Wakefield, performing during the 2018 Get Lit Words Ignite Classic Slam, the largest youth poetry tournament in Southern California. Order Get Lit Rising today at simonandschuster.com, and join the #LiteraryRiot at getlit.org.
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Performing at Button Poetry Live.
“We try so hard to be seen, we forget our own softness.”
Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Ry Irene, performing at Button Poetry Live.
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2018 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“Eric haunts Central Park. He did not die there, but he watches the trees enjoy what was stolen from him.”
Don’t miss this magnificent poem by Jonathan Teklit, an honorable mention in the 2018 Button Poetry Video Contest!
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Performing at Button Poetry Live.
“My religion makes my breath smell too much like gunpowder.”
Don’t miss this amazing poem from Isha Camara, performing at Button Poetry Live.
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Featuring at The Fine Line.
“I suffer from unrequited self love. I love myself, but I don’t love myself back.”
Don’t miss this marvelous series of poems from Andrea Gibson, featuring at Fine Line in Minneapolis, MN.
Make sure to check out Andrea’s book, LORD OF THE BUTTERFLIES, now available!
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Featuring at Icehouse.
“This is what it’s like to stay sober, standing next to something delicate and beautiful and wanting to smash it.”
Don’t miss this remarkable poem from Shane Hawley, featuring at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
Grab your copy of Shane’s hysterical book, ABC DEATH, now available!
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Performing at Button Poetry Live.
“I say I am fat, and my mother reminds me that I have fingernails, but that I am not a fingernail, so having fat does not make me fat.”
Don’t miss this magnificent poem from Miss K, performing at Button Poetry Live.
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