Kelsey Bigelow – Learned Instinct

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“I have learned to quiet, like mime, with helium in my heels and mute in my voice box.”

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Ashlee Connors – Project Unbecoming

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“Did you know I fill out these flaws, wear them like the forgiveness I’ve learned to grant myself?”

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Little Blue – Temporarily Beautiful

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“There’s something about replacement that’s complacent, something about replacing my father’s love with the rim of a bottle.”

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Rashad Wright – intro

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“I feel like a car accident that keeps waking up in the morning, and the morning, all of this mourning, is never done.”

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Drew Drake – Dear Jordan Peele

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“Thank you for allowing me to hear a scream in a writer’s room that sounds familiar to my own.”

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Cassandra IsFree – The Little Merman

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“What’s a shark to a killer whale?”

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Rudy Francisco – Orville

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“Stupid and brave are just two sides of the same coin, the only difference is whether or not you guessed correctly before the penny hits the floor.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

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Sierra DeMulder – Now, Again

Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY

“I measure our time apart not in days but in two presidents.”

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Zach Goldberg – 15 Seconds

Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“My inheritance is a bundle of EKG wires, the strange arrhythmic heart song sung by my father and his father before him. This is what it feels like to drown in your family’s ocean.”

Don’t miss this poem from Zach Goldberg, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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