Performed at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
“my wish for you on this longest night, is that the sky becomes all of your safest things.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
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Performed at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“Once my temple was ransacked, I ran into the arms of another. Together we used my remnants to make a shrine of our love.”
Don’t miss this poem from Legacy Thornton, performing at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“Liquor too can become a consecration, so it became the way I practiced.”
Don’t miss this poem from Zach Goldberg, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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“Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Ollie Schminkey, Alex Dang, Edwin Bodney, Rudy Francisco, and Sean Patrick Mulroy! Congrats Poets!
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Performed at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX
“Why would I settle for a man who can only see me as something to order, something to devour, something to conquer?”
Don’t miss this poem from BlacqWildFlowr, performing at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX
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Performed at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
“What is an obituary but a note passed between fingers underneath the desk during class?”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
Get Ollie’s book, Where I Dry the Flowers.
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Performed in NYC
“We men who love men’s bodies know this mouth, its whispered menace.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC
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“Love changed. Love disappeared, slowly, like baby teeth; losing parts of me I thought I needed. Love vanished like an amateur magician; everyone could see the trap door but me.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco and Bri Esoteric! Congrats Poets!
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Performed at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“Stubborn thing the mind is, to latch on to anger like a cancer.”
Don’t miss this poem from Anita Dias, performing at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
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Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“I don’t want a Devil who smiles in my face. Give me a devil proud of his deeds.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown , performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
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