Sierra DeMulder – Who made the music?

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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King Yaw – Black Bible

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.”

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Lino Anunciacion – What Makes A Good Person

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?”

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Andrea Gibson – Etiquette Leash

Performed in Longmont, CO

“It is never polite to throw back the tear gas.”

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Rudy Francisco – There aren’t enough songs

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.”

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Briana Blair Crockett – Sundaze

Performed at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA

“Speak to me in spring tones and color your voice gentle.”

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John Lotti – Tim McGraw Wants Me to Hurt Just Enough that I Learn Something

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.”

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Zach Goldberg – Blackout

Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“Anything can be an addiction, because if I swallowed it and finished it, and it didn’t kill me, it must be the first thing worth remembering.”

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Ollie Schminkey – It is the Night Before the Night Before

Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“she feels like my mother and not just a person who is watching the same man die.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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Sierra DeMulder – How to Define you

Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY

“Noun: a vase hovering on the edge of a table, a knife stuck softly in the ceiling.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY

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