A poetry film by Motionpoems.
“I go quiet for days. I turn the color of mirrors. I turn the color of smoke.”
Don’t miss this marvelous poem by Safia Elhillo, filmed by Motionpoems. Join our mailing list and get notified for our next submission period!
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2016 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“My armpit hair is uneven and I feel like something is wrong with my nipples but I don’t know what.”
Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Ed Carlyon, featured contestant in the 2016 Button Poetry Video Contest. Join our mailing list and get notified for our next submission period!
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Performing at Button Poetry Live.
“Fuck these guys, we’re perfect as we are.”
Don’t miss this remarkable poem from Khary Jackson, performing at Button Poetry Live. If you’re in the Twin Cities, don’t miss the next Button Poetry Live show, first Monday of every month in downtown Saint Paul, or watch LIVE from our YouTube Channel.
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2016 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“They mistake our wailing for anger, but it is pain.”
Don’t miss this spectacular poem from Marshall Gillson, featured contestant in the 2016 Button Poetry Video Contest. Join our mailing list and get notified for our next submission period!
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2016 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“I’m a short starving student barely standing five-feet sizzling like Hot Pockets–slick and lisping.”
Don’t miss this wonderful poem from Anne CapCap, featured contestant in the 2016 Button Poetry Video Contest. Join our mailing list and get notified for our next submission period!
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Performing at Button Poetry Live.
“I wish there was something of yours left that I could put my ear to, and hear the familiar of your voice stumbling for my name.”
Don’t miss this incredible poem from Omar Holmon, featuring at Button Poetry Live, February 2017. If you’re in the Twin Cities, don’t miss the next Button Poetry Live show, first Monday of every month in downtown Saint Paul, or watch LIVE from our YouTube Channel.
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2016 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“We are human. We know this because we can look down on almost anything.”
Don’t miss this spectacular poem from Meghann Plunkett, featured contestant in the 2016 Button Poetry Video Contest. Join our mailing list and get notified for our next submission period!
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Performing at his book release in Minneapolis.
“I’m hum and tick, derision and boom, unclocked time.”
Don’t miss this spectacular poem from Aaron Coleman, performing at his book release in Minneapolis. Check out Aaron’s incredible book, St. Trigger, Winner of the 2015 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest.
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Performing at Honey in Minneapolis.
“How lonely it must be to come from desire but end where light ends.”
Don’t miss this marvelous poem from Hieu Minh Nguyen, performing at Honey in Minneapolis. Check out Hieu’s phenomenal book, “This Way to the Sugar”.
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A poetry film by Motionpoems.
“How do you raise a Black child? From the dead. With pallbearers who are half as young as their faces suggest and twice the oxen they should be.”
Don’t miss this magnificent film from Motionpoems, inspired by Cortney Lamar Charleston. Join our mailing list and get notified for our next submission period!
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