Performing at Hamline University
Don’t miss this incredible poem from Eric Sirota, performing at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN
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Performing at the Button Studio
“I supply everything, even the pipe dreams. That’s why ballplayers pass the ‘rock’ and the rappers ‘cook it up’ in the lab. I’m the ‘base’line in that jazz, the ‘rock’ in their roll and I’m always in the background when shit goes up in ‘smoke.’”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Steven Willis, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN
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Performing at the Button Studio
“You can’t ‘beat’ death, you can only dance a little more slippery, drum a little more timelessly, hold that note beyond your breath, and hope to find a home in its echo.”
Don’t miss this great poem from Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN
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Performing at Button Poetry Live
“Maybe when we say ‘love,’ what we mean is ‘a safe place to fall apart.’”
Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Jason Bayani, performing at Button Poetry Live in May 2019
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Performing at Park Square Theatre
Don’t miss this powerful poem from E.J. Schoenborn, performing at Park Square Theatre in Saint Paul, MN
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Performing at Park Square Theatre
“I’m still trying to convince my shadow that it chose me for a reason.”
Don’t miss this great poem from Ebony Stewart, performing at Park Square Theatre in Saint Paul, MN
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Performing at Little Island
“My soon-wife asks if we should bury a gun in the front yard, which is perhaps the opposite of a grave. A tombstone buried underneath the ground, waiting to be inscribed with a name.”
Don’t miss this great poem from Phil Kaye, performing at Little Island in NYC
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Performing at the 2022 Womxn of the World Poetry Slam
“I will always tell her she is beautiful. But I am not the one she wants to hear that from. I am not the one who has to believe it.”
Don’t miss this fantastic poem from LeChell The Shootah, performing at the 2022 Womxn of the World Poetry Slam in Baltimore, MD
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Performing at McNally Jackson Books
“Mr. Powell was a perv but I did not mind at all, because he seemed more lonely than creepy and I think those are totally different things.”
Don’t miss this great poem from Adam Falkner, performing at McNally Jackson Books in Brooklyn, NY
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Performing at the Button Studio
“Somewhere a Black Capitalist lies to himself. Says he is his ancestors’ wildest dreams cause he got a four-wheel drive and a house as big as the oppressors’.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Steven Willis, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN
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