Performed in Longmont, CO
“Tell me again how you intend to rescue their women. How you will teach them how to read in the schools you have turned to prisons, how you will offer them doctors in the hospitals you have burned with their children inside.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
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Performed their poem “Confinement”
“Belugas are captured because they are expressive, and they die less often than other whales in confinement.”
Don’t miss this poem from Catherine Weiss, performing their poem “Confinement”
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Performed at The Town Hall in New York, NY
“We’re not equal, we’re not united, if anything, I think we’re divided.”
Don’t miss this poem from Gladys Holman, performing at The Town Hall in New York, NY
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Performed in Longmont, CO
“Walking through the cemetery in my hometown, fixing the flowers on a stranger’s grave.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
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Performed at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX
“We share poems in safe spaces and you think you have rights to our stories.”
Don’t miss this poem from Liv McKee, performing at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX
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Performed at the Albany Barn in Albany, NY
“You will tell everyone you are jealous. You will lie and say of her.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at the Albany Barn in Albany, NY
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Performed at the Button Studio
“Rebellion is the most natural form of self-defense”
Don’t miss this poem from Darius Simpson, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed at The Town Hall in New York, NY
“Existing black cannot be described as a box. There are no limits to what we can do. There are no limits to who we can become.”
Don’t miss this poem from Cameron Dada, performing at The Town Hall in New York, NY
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Performed
“We are blurry silhouettes against the backdrop of everything popular, often wearing our skin like a costume of someone we didn’t feel comfortable pretending to be anyways.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing
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Performed at the 2022 Womxn of the World Poetry Slam in Baltimore, MD
“We are a lineage of lost childhoods and stolen innocence, how we never talk about it even though we know it exists.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ayanna Albertson, performing at the 2022 Womxn of the World Poetry Slam in Baltimore, MD
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