“Maybe love stays, maybe love can’t. Maybe love shouldn’t.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Doc Luben, and Alex Dang! Congrats Poets!
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“You conflating ‘patriots’ with ‘runaways’, not my boys.”
Don’t miss this poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA
“I believe that masculinity is a wet fish that most men are just trying to hold onto.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA
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“The breeders make their monsters out of anyone who dares to cross the space between the simple-minded genders they have sanctified, each a legend, and a prison, and a lie.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy.
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“Love had terrible rhythm on the dance floor, but made sure we never missed a slow song.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Darius Simpson, Scout Bostley, Sean Patrick Mulroy, and Ariana Brown! Congrats Poets!
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Performed at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“When the same red flag on which he bled for white right refuses to tourniquet his blue wounds.”
Don’t miss this poem from Miya Coleman, performing at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
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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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Performed in NYC
“The first protagonist in all recorded literary history, a man, makes love to men, and hey, guess what? He doesn’t die.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC
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“Love had terrible rhythm on the dance floor, but made sure we never missed a slow song.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, and Ebony Stewart! Congrats Poets!
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Performed performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
“I’d give it all again: my bodily wholeness, my blood–just a penance, a sacrament, a levy on the road to you.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
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