Andrea Gibson – Glider Plane

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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Meaghan Ford – The Body As Reclamation

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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Ms. Butterfly – Chinese Take Out

Performed at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD

“Say you already learned how to use chopsticks so that means you’re already entitled to pick me apart.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ms. Butterfly, performing at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD

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Alex – Love Letter to Dissociation

Performed at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA

“You cannot live anywhere forever, but darling, you can live here tonight.”

Don’t miss this poem from Alex, performing at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA

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Logan Lopez – Road Trip With The Memory Of My Girlhood and My Imagined Boyhood

Performed NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals

“We all grab whatever we can get our hands and chuck it as far as we can.”

Don’t miss this poem from Logan Lopez, performing NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals

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Ollie Schminkey – it was the year i stopped trying to stop chewing my nails

Performed at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.

“i spent the year bit to the quick and bloodied cuticles and alive despite everything.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.

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Zach Goldberg – From Here

Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“We’re all transplants, all absent from our parent’s kitchen and mother tongue”

Don’t miss this poem from Zach Goldberg, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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Best of Button – Week 45

As a boy, my father once trained a crow to return nightly to the porch. I tried to train my memory the same way.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Ollie Schminkey, Rudy Francisco, Makinsey Jones, Zach Goldberg, Clint Smith, Meaghan Ford, and Usman Hameedi! Congrats Poets!

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Usman Hameedi – It’s My Favorite Picture of Us

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“In the early days of our love, time was all we could afford to spend and we were so rich.”

Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

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