Featuring at Button Poetry Live.
“I count the exits in a room as quickly as I count the exits in a conversation.”
Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Emi Mahmoud, featuring at Button Poetry Live.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, & our newest release from Blythe Baird!
“I marched through my own heart armed with nothing and came out the other side.”
Congratulations to Alysia Harris on topping 250,000 views on this powerful poem! Watch more videos from Alysia here and here!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, Blythe Baird, & our newest release from Desireé Dallagiacomo!
2018 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“Tongue don’t leave home the way the body do, so long as you keep it fed.”
Don’t miss this fabulous poem by Geramee Hensley, a runner-up in the 2018 Button Poetry Video Contest!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, Blythe Baird, & our newest release from Desireé Dallagiacomo!
Performing in St. Paul, MN.
“Isn’t it just like a man to revive himself just when he needs you?”
Don’t miss this incredible poem from EJ Schoenborn, performing at Amsterdam Bar and Hall in St. Paul, MN.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, Blythe Baird, & our newest release from Desireé Dallagiacomo!
Featuring at Icehouse.
“Some days I never look in a mirror. Some days I do everything I can to be unseen. But not everyday. But not today. And I’ll take that victory.”
Don’t miss this exquisite poem from Desireé Dallagiacomo, featuring at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
Desireé’s book, SINK, is now available to order! Get your copy now!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Rachel Wiley, Neil Hilborn, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, & our newest release from Blythe Baird!
“I’ll never tell. You’re safe here, with me.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, & James Hartzer! Congrats Poets!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, & our newest release from Blythe Baird!
Performing in Minneapolis.
“To live in America is to already attend a funeral with complete strangers.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Alok Vaid-Menon, performing in Minneapolis, MN.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, & our newest release from Blythe Baird!
Featuring at Button Poetry Live.
“I will not let you tell me that the Africa in my back is something that I should be ashamed of. I will not let you tell me that I should quiet these drums.”
Don’t miss this awesome poem from Ashlee Haze, featuring at Button Poetry Live.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, & our newest release from Blythe Baird!
“The role of college will be played by me sleeping, also the role of work will be played by me sleeping.”
Congratulations to Ben Wenzl on topping 250,000 views on this remarkable poem! Watch more videos from Ben here and here!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Rachel Wiley, Neil Hilborn, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, & our newest release from Blythe Baird!
Desireé Dallagiacomo (she/her) is a writer, educator, and space creator. She is Chahta and is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and she has ranked in the top 3 at every major poetry slam in the United States. In 2017 she coached the Baton Rouge youth poetry slam team to an international championship at the largest youth poetry slam festival in the world, Brave New Voices.
Previously the program and artistic director for the largest youth spoken word organization in Louisiana, she is now a freelance teaching artist and an adjunct creative writing teacher at Baton Rouge Magnet High School. In 2016, she founded The Heart of It, a writing retreat for working-class, entry-level writers in the high desert of New Mexico.
Currently, Des leads a weekly writing workshop, curates The Heart of It, teaches writing at Baton Rouge Magnet High School, and is writing a memoir. SINK is her first full-length poetry collection and it is available wherever books are sold. If you want to read her current work, subscribe to her substack.