Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
“Is that what a man’s wrath does? Sends darkness elsewhere with its teeth chattering.”
Don’t miss this poem from Jessica Thiru, a finalist in the 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
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Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
“Shrink smaller and smaller and look at what a good monster I have become.”
Don’t miss this poem from Kenneth Bradley & Ren L[i]u, a finalist in the 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
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Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
“Fatigue flowered like a fungus, a network of rotten blossoms blotting our guts, our hearts, our breath.”
Don’t miss this poem from Mary Maxfield, a finalist in the 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
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Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
“A goddess gleaming through the darkness, finally the girl of my dreams, never in spite, but because of you.”
Don’t miss this poem from Madeline October, a finalist in the 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
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Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
“She is smiling, not falling to these bullets because there are no more holes to make in her. She knows these wounds.”
Don’t miss this poem from Shahamat Uddin, a finalist in the 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
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Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
“I have learned to quiet, like mime, with helium in my heels and mute in my voice box.”
Don’t miss this poem from Kelsey Bigelow, a finalist in the 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
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Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
“Did you know I fill out these flaws, wear them like the forgiveness I’ve learned to grant myself?”
Don’t miss this poem from Ashlee Connors, a finalist in the 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
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Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
“There’s something about replacement that’s complacent, something about replacing my father’s love with the rim of a bottle.”
Don’t miss this poem from Little Blue, finalist in the 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest.
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Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
“I feel like a car accident that keeps waking up in the morning, and the morning, all of this mourning, is never done.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rashad Wright, finalist in the 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
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Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
“Thank you for allowing me to hear a scream in a writer’s room that sounds familiar to my own.”
Don’t miss this poem from Drew Drake, finalist in the 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest
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