Performed NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
“Why love yourself if no one loves you, was the easiest broken mentality to adopt.”
Don’t miss this poem from Kenny Bradley, performing NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
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Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“I simmered rosemary and drank its tea, grew my hair thick as a plank, spoke poems till my throat blistered and waned and still could not curse colonizers enough to undo their work.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown, performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
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Performed at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
“My hair asks why it’s being written up, being fired.”
Don’t miss this poem from EL, performing at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
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Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
“”I believe it was her again, the lost sibling on the other side of time and blood, watching us from beyond a thousand unrewindable moments, in another world where I cannot reach her, where all unfinished things dwell.””
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
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Performed at The Town Hall in NY, during Black History Month 2024
“why are you ignorant to these dirty systems you’ve set up?”
Don’t miss this poem from Mariam Dembélé, performing at The Town Hall in NY, during Black History Month 2024
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
“My therapist tells me you’re looking for a mother in every bed. I am looking for a mother but all I am finding is her fingers.”
Don’t miss this poem from Anna Šverclová, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
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Performed at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
“You came in and we sat together on the floor and I put on some smooth jazz and helped you put yourself together the best way I knew how.”
Don’t miss this poem from Clint Smith, performing at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
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Performed at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
“I wore a flowered dress to my boy birthday party. Don’t look at me like that. I’m not the box the gift came in.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
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Performed NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
“Praise to the sun as it dances across my love’s eyes.”
Don’t miss this poem from Meaghan Ford, performing NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
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