Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“On Thursday, I got into a car accident, and my hands already started calling him. I hung up before he couldn’t answer.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“I re-emerged revolution in my ugly, Monarch Majesty butterfly brilliancelike I said I was.”
Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at the Button Studio
“Rumor has it politicians don’t take too kindly to paper cuts or other proof that once upon a time they were mortal.”
Don’t miss this poem from Darius Simpson, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“always wondering if this will be the last dusk without her.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at The Town Hall in New York, NY
“The death of a people is not meant to sound like a camera’s click.”
Don’t miss this poem from Urban Word, performing at The Town Hall in New York, NY
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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“Oppie, how’d you do it? I get lonely halfway between my house and Chicago, If I’m alone in a hotel room for two days I forget how to speak, I get lonesome when the cell service drops out.”
Don’t miss this poem from Neil Hilborn, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“the memory of a dream becoming translucent in the morning light”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“A closed fist can punch through a wall but you can’t fix the hole until you open your hands”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed her poem “Fear”
“Fear must be coming out but still having to pretend to be someone else.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ebony Stewart, performing her poem “Fear”
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“Scripted does not mean fake”
Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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