Daniel – “Flowers (or, A Beginner’s Guide to Surviving Sexual Assault)”


Performing at Button Poetry Live.

“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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Marcel “Fable the Poet” Price – “Don’t Mind Me”

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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Ajanae Dawkins – “For The Blonde Girl and the Classrooms of Ghosts”


Performing at the 2018 Rustbelt Poetry Festival.

“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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Dua Saleh – “The Romanticization of Poverty”


Performing at 7th St Entry.

“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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Phil Kaye – “Repetition”


Featuring at Honey.

“You watch the sunset too often it just becomes 6pm. You make the same mistake over & over you’ll stop calling it a mistake. If you just wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up one day you’ll forget why.”

Don’t miss this exquisite poem from Phil Kaye, featuring at Honey in Minneapolis. Don’t miss Phil’s debut book, DATE & TIME, now available!


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Rachel Wiley – “But They Say I Will Not Make It”


Featuring at Icehouse.

“When you are fat (and I am fat) the streets are full of soothsayers telling you how you will die.”

Don’t miss this amazing poem from Rachel Wiley, featuring at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.


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Ephraim Nehemiah – “Jesus Christ Tries Asking His Father Questions Again”


Performing at the 2018 Rustbelt Poetry Festival.

“I should call you ghost before I call you father. Ain’t a ghost someone that came before you that keeps haunting you even when you never see them?”

Don’t miss this incredible poem from Ephraim Nehemiah, performing at the 2018 Rustbelt Poetry Festival in Detroit, MI.



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Donte Collins – “Teething”


Featuring at Honey in Minneapolis.

“To be queer and Black is to walk out of the closet into a casket.”

Don’t miss this remarkable poem from Donte Collins, featuring at his book release party at Honey in Minneapolis. Get your copy of Donte’s book, AUTOPSY.


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Sabrina Benaim – “Dear Beyoncé”


Featuring at Icehouse in Minneapolis.

“Put my pen to paper, the first thing to come out is yesterday’s name.”

Don’t miss this beautiful poem from Sabrina Benaim, featuring at her book release party at Icehouse in Minneapolis. Get your copy of Sabrina’s book, DEPRESSION & OTHER MAGIC TRICKS.


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Zenaida Peterson – “Pride/Proud”


Performing at the 2018 Rustbelt Poetry Festival.

“I’m afraid of the parade. Of forcing my body into lines of police assaultants that are complacent in the killing of Black children.”

Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Zenaida Peterson, performing at the 2018 Rustbelt Poetry Festival in Detroit, MI.



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