“A good kid won’t wear his pants like our expectations. Did you wear them low, Darius?”
Don’t miss this astounding poem from Sonya Renee Taylor, featuring at Button Poetry Live.
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“Your blood has traveled oceans so that it would not be spilled. You are too alive to be a martyr.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Khoi the Poet, performing at CUPSI 2018 in Philadelphia, PA.
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2017 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“No matter what I do, I will always be a haunted house I am too afraid to live in.”
Don’t miss this incredible poem by Jonathan Salazar, featured contestant from the 2017 Button Poetry Video Contest!
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Featuring at the 2018 Get Lit Classic Slam.
“My body is a burning home. Everyone wants out or they want a redeeming story about the arsonist.”
Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Mary Lambert, featuring 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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“I love myself enough to make this body a place I want to live in.”
Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at Button Poetry Live.
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“Whoa, be thankful that I am wanted by the earth, if no one else is waiting to hold my body again.”
Don’t miss this awesome poem from Phil Kaye, featuring at Icehouse in Minneapolis. Don’t miss Phil’s debut book, DATE & TIME, now available!
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“You don’t know how hard it is to watch when the soil you stand on supplies all the ammo for your country’s annihilation.”
Don’t miss this outstanding poem from Khalid Abu Dawas & Sejahari Saulter-Villegas, performing at CUPSI 2018 in Philadelphia, PA.
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2017 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“I did this all on my own: romanticized depression and became my own villain and victim in same breath. I am the double-edged sword.”
Don’t miss this magnificent poem by River Mason, featured contestant from the 2017 Button Poetry Video Contest!
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Performing at the 2018 Get Lit Classic Slam.
“Sitting in my first grade classroom, I was struggling to find words when my teacher told me to either say it in English or don’t say it at all.”
Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Patricia Lipana, 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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“I practiced saying ‘I love you’ in the mirror, not ‘I love you because,’ or ‘I love you despite,’ just ‘I love you.’”
Don’t miss this beautiful poem from Sabrina Benaim, performing at Amsterdam Bar and Hall in St. Paul, MN.
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