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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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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“I am still the life of the party, the life of the party because I am alive.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions:Anna Šverclová, Andrea Gibson, Reagan Myers, Anita D and Edwin Bodney! Congrats Poets!
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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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