Performed at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
“Cause all in all, I’d rather you keep them Saltines in your mouth than my word.”
Don’t miss this poem from QuinKillin’, performing at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
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I wondered if it was you and the one taken from my body to soon or perhaps too late returned only to shepherd you home.”
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Performed at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“When your pain is rendered and visible you become an illegibility. A mirage of stories deemed unreadable.”
Don’t miss this poem from Hailey Tran, performing at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
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Performed NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
“We are guardians at the gate. My chaos theory states ‘expect the unexpected.'”
Don’t miss this poem from Art Collins, performing NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
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Performed at Button Poetry Live
“I don’t think it’s unreasonable that I get to choose what gets put in my body.”
Don’t miss this poem from Riley Zahn, performing at Button Poetry Live
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Performed at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
“that soft discordant tune that lacks soul and feels at home in hours as much as a horror, as a gunman lurking by the cracked basketball courts gripping a tin badge.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ty Chapman, performing at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
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“Everything on stage was set ablaze because all I had to be was the fire in me.”
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“Praise the generations that brought a piece of them through customs. Authentic outfits, palettes, and audacity.””
Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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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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