“My mind can only count reasons to stay awake.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Kyle ‘Guante’ Tran Myhre, Kevin Yang, Denice Frohman, and Anita D! Congrats Poets!
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Performed at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“I pick the sweetest parts and unwrap them to taste the bittersweet of not yet weeping.”
Don’t miss this poem from Stratusfier, performing at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
“How many servings from the melting pot did it take for you to arrive at this conversation?”
Don’t miss this poem from Kevin Yang, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
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Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“Teach me to be a person without a nation, on the other side of enslavement. I will write to you always.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown, performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
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“Love had terrible rhythm on the dance floor, but made sure we never missed a slow song.”
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Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
“We are the rich dropping lint into the open waiting hands of the needy.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
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Performed at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“Crimson spews from my tongue as my professor tells us that to speak a language is to tell the story of survival.”
Don’t miss this poem from Mariama Savage, performing at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
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Performed in NYC
“It seems our stories always end this way, but then again it seems we never have the chance to write them.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC
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“Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to. And love leaves exactly when love must. When love arrives, say, Welcome, make yourself comfortable. If love leaves, ask her to leave the door open behind her. Turn off the music, listen to the quiet. Whisper, Thank you for stopping by.”
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Performed at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
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