Kenny Bradley – To Pimp a Caterpillar

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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Ariana Brown – At the End of the Borderlands

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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EL – My Hair Asks

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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Sierra DeMulder – The Fawn

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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Mariam Dembélé – The Black Girl ABC’s

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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Part of our mission at Button Poetry is to share, showcase and highlight all of the powerful, diverse voices in our community which means we are always on the lookout for insanely talented poets like yourselves! (Yayy!!!)

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Anna Šverclová – The Carving

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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Clint Smith – Ode to the Electric Baby Swing

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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Best of Button – Week 47

“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 week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Ollie Schminkey, Ms. Butterfly, Alex Aimee Kist, Bhumika Billa, Ellen T. Dotts, Sparrow, Jessica Thiru, Ashlee Connors, Cassandra IsFree, Drew Drake, Kelsey Bigelow, Kenneth Bradley, Ren L[i]u, Little Blue, Madeline October, Mary Maxfield, Rashad Wright, and Shahamat Uddin! Congrats Poets!

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