Performed in NYC
“Thirty days of flyers. Thirty days of prayer and deli platters. Thirty days of missing. Thirty days, and dead the whole time.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC
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Performed at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
“For every good time to sing its tune throughout my cheeks it took a trail of skulls and spilled marrow to build a body worth continuing to sing to.”
Don’t miss this poem from EL, performing at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
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“If you knew her you knew about the dream, the one where her fruitless body wished for the plum-skinned boy and then the boy walked through her front door.”
Don’t miss this poem from Donte Collins
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Performed at The Town Hall in NY, during Black History Month 2024
“it is indeed crazy to hide your feelings, but it is even crazier to experience the things love can truly make you do.”
Don’t miss this poem from Jazzmyne Odom, performing at The Town Hall in NY, during Black History Month 2024
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“Even while being eaten my pussy has an appetite”
Don’t miss this poem from Porsha Olayiwola, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
“It clicked that you, father, were a holy man who believed in honeyed concepts.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ty Chapman, performing at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
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In memory of Kelly “Native Child” Mays.
May her voice and impact live on.
Information on her life and her final journey, from the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe.
7 Videos of her work from 2017-2020:
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“I’m strong enough to hold my loved ones but I don’t know if I can support a home.”
Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
“Why call the police on a flock of angels and order them to circle until, exhausted, they fall from the sky?”
Don’t miss this poem from Matthew Richards, performing NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“Now, I am gridlocked by my own emptiness. A knife interlocking with a knife.”
Don’t miss this poem from Anna Šverclová, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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