Andrea Gibson – After the Wound of Us

Performed performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.

“The hours passed smooth as the wine we downed, like we were pouring the blood back into our bodies.”

Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.

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Ayanna Albertson – Mourning People

Performed 200305 WoWPS: Winery N1B2

“Turn funerals into homegoing celebrations, declarations that not even death can still this joy. We cannot be destroyed, so bring on the morning.”

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Sean Patrick Mulroy – the evidence speaks for itself (Pre-Columbian Moche Ceramic, c.700 CE)

Performed in NYC

“I wonder, can you drink from me as joyfully as I drink from this man, this king, this font of bygone eras?”

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Aparna – I Dream My Mother on Her Deathbed &

Performed at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA

“When I was born, I nearly killed her. When she had me, I almost died, and our two lives have been one slow suicide pact ever since.”

Don’t miss this poem from Aparna, performing at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA

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Sean Patrick Mulroy – It’s different

Performed in NYC

“While all studies of the human psyche would suggest shame to be more harmful than fists, there are fists, still.”

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Neil Hilborn – What’s Good

Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“You know what’s good? A stack of 20s and three days off. A blank check from you to you.”

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Junious ‘Jay’ Ward – Jerry Jones Addresses His [Players] Regarding the NFL Boycott

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“You conflating ‘patriots’ with ‘runaways’, not my boys.”

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Rudy Francisco – A Few Things I Strongly Believe In

Performed at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA

“I believe that masculinity is a wet fish that most men are just trying to hold onto.”

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Sean Patrick Mulroy – Our Lady of the Piers

“The breeders make their monsters out of anyone who dares to cross the space between the simple-minded genders they have sanctified, each a legend, and a prison, and a lie.”

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Miya Coleman – Mister

Performed at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA

“When the same red flag on which he bled for white right refuses to tourniquet his blue wounds.”

Don’t miss this poem from Miya Coleman, performing at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA

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