Carson Wolfe – “Ten Weeks”

2021 Button Poetry Video Contest

“‘I, your seahorse companion, gender ambivalent and capable of producing a thousand eggs, will have a thousand babies,’ I promised as you peeked into my hands, and together we marveled at our treasure.”

Don’t miss this stunning poem from Carson Wolfe, a Category Winner of the 2021 Button Poetry Video Contest!

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Patrick Roche – “Poem in Which Flowers are Replaced by My Brain”

Performed by Patrick Roche

“My brain buds and blooms and is a symbol of love when gifted to a partner.”

Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Patrick Roche, performed and recorded in his home.

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Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre – “Ten Responses to the Proposal to Overcome the Current Plague by Challenging It to a Duel”

Performing at the Button Studio

“This is how the men in my family tell sad stories: we always add a little violence.”

Don’t miss this incredible poem from Guante, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN.

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Michael Mlekoday – “In At Least A Thousand Worlds”

Performing at the Button Studio

“I learn there is a season for everything. A wood-guided wind pollinates the many worlds with a single shiver. A thousand leaves unfurl.”

Don’t miss this beautiful poem from Michael Mlekoday, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN.

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Trace DePass – “Notes on the Great Migration”

Performing at The Bowery Poetry Club

“Did my father think I was a phoenix? Are these his ashes he forgot in me or am I burning?”

Don’t miss this powerful poem from Trace DePass, performing at The Bowery Poetry Club in New York, NY.

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Anita Jefferies – “The Tree Fell”

Filmed by SlamFind

“When they ask, ‘So, what’s your ethnicity?’ Say, uprooted. Say the tree fell a long time ago. Everyone pretended not to hear it.”

Don’t miss this incredible poem from Anita Jefferies, filmed by SlamFind

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C.R.U.S.H & Rain – “American Clone”

2021 Button Poetry Video Contest

“There’s no need for protest in the Promised Land.”

Don’t miss this great poem from C.R.U.S.H & Rain, Category Winners of the 2021 Button Poetry Video Contest!

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Andrea Gibson – “Neighbors”

Performed in Longmont, CO

“She was so unsurprised to see me on her porch, I knew the world had changed.”

Don’t miss this incredible poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO.

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McPherson – “Mom, Stop Calling Me N**** (T.O.R.N.)”

Performing at the Black Arts Matter Poetry Slam

“‘Tis the season for white women to stop calling me ‘nigga.’”

Don’t miss this powerful poem from McPherson, performing at the Black Arts Matter Poetry Slam

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Rachel Wiley – “Poem for Susan Boomer Jenkins”

Performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“And like a punch to the side of the head, there she is. Everything I have worked my entire fat life not to be, embodied on screen.”

Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Rachel Wiley, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.

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