Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“In a world where we are discarded, we have a duty to be delusional.”
Don’t miss this poem from Farah Habad, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
“I am adorned in a garland of gold stars for simply being in this body.”
Don’t miss this poem from Clint Smith, performing at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
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Performed at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
“as a boy, my father once trained a crow to return nightly to the porch. i try to train my memory the same way.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
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“The hollow auditorium of my chest swoons with echoes of a heartbeat, but I am a careless tourist here.”
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Performed at NorthBeast Regional 2023 Prelims
“They tell the teachers, ‘lose the limb, save the life.'”
Don’t miss this poem from Christopher Clauss, performing at NorthBeast Regional 2023 Prelims
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Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“I have permission to be uncivil, ugly. To shatter ceramics to get my point across when no one will listen.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown, performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
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Performed at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
“I wondered, how many nights he pushed down his panic, how often he reached out a hand to God, all of his prayers whispered like prescription drugs.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
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Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
“To talk about you feels like describing a landscape through a telescope—distorted, magnified into a few blurry features.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
“While I was still inside her body, my mother needle-pointed onto my bedroom door: Anna means graceful child of God.”
Don’t miss this poem from Anna Šverclová, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“If a dragon is hoarding gold, is it not the duty of knights to separate the head from the neck? Are we not knights, sir?”
Don’t miss this poem from Neil Hilborn, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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