Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“It begins like it doesn’t want to interrupt your day, but needs a few minutes of your time.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at the Button Studio
“I don’t remember when we started laughing at horrible things, just that we did.”
Don’t miss this poem from Elyssa Cook, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed at the Button Studio
“After another unrequited love leaves me with dandelions wilting in my fists.”
Don’t miss this poem from Blythe Baird, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY
“I don’t know exactly what a prayer is, but tonight I listen to a dying woman sing. Her body waterless, her tongue a dark dried rose, she knew all the words even from the other side of morphine’s ponds.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY
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Performed at the Stonewall International Poetry Slam in Baltimore, MD
“If my body is a holy book, your honor, then it is no coincidence that the bible is the most stolen or the most sold.”
Don’t miss this poem from King Yaw, performing at the Stonewall International Poetry Slam in Baltimore, MD
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Performed their poem “What Makes A Good Person”
“Sometimes they’re sitting in a storm, sap leaking out of them, lava spilling out of their mouths when they ask me, ‘Lino, what makes a good person?”
Don’t miss this poem from Lino Anunciacion, performing their poem “What Makes A Good Person”
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Performed in Longmont, CO
“It is never polite to throw back the tear gas.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“Whenever the weekend is visited by the Saint of Empty Schedules, we throw a party in his honor but only invite ourselves.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“Speak to me in spring tones and color your voice gentle.”
Don’t miss this poem from Briana Blair Crockett, performing at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
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Performed their poem “Tim McGraw Wants Me to Hurt Just Enough that I Learn Something”
“I don’t think I’ll ever find love, because I think the show Friends is boring.”
Don’t miss this poem by John Lotti.
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