2016 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“I’m a short starving student barely standing five-feet sizzling like Hot Pockets–slick and lisping.”
Don’t miss this wonderful poem from Anne CapCap, featured contestant in the 2016 Button Poetry Video Contest. Join our mailing list and get notified for our next submission period!
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Performing at Button Poetry Live.
“I wish there was something of yours left that I could put my ear to, and hear the familiar of your voice stumbling for my name.”
Don’t miss this incredible poem from Omar Holmon, featuring at Button Poetry Live, February 2017. If you’re in the Twin Cities, don’t miss the next Button Poetry Live show, first Monday of every month in downtown Saint Paul, or watch LIVE from our YouTube Channel.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Neil Hilborn, Mahogany L. Browne, Olivia Gatwood, Hanif Abdurraqib, Sabrina Benaim, Jacqui Germain, Aaron Coleman & more.
“The women in my family are bitches. Cranky bitches, stuck-up bitches, customer-service-turned-sour bitches.”
Congratulations to Melissa on topping 250,000 views on this magnificent poem. Pre-order your copy of Melissa’s book, Peluda, coming soon from Button Poetry.
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2016 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“We are human. We know this because we can look down on almost anything.”
Don’t miss this spectacular poem from Meghann Plunkett, featured contestant in the 2016 Button Poetry Video Contest. Join our mailing list and get notified for our next submission period!
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“I wonder, often, if the gun that will unmake me is yet made.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Donte Collins & Andrea Gibson. Congratulations poets!
Don’t miss out on Donte’s brilliant new book, AUTOPSY.
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Performing at his book release in Minneapolis.
“I’m hum and tick, derision and boom, unclocked time.”
Don’t miss this spectacular poem from Aaron Coleman, performing at his book release in Minneapolis. Check out Aaron’s incredible book, St. Trigger, Winner of the 2015 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest.
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“Opening voicemails. He does not tell anyone he still has ones from his dead father. He will not delete them. He will not delete dead grandparents’ contact information. He will not delete anything.”
Congratulations to Patrick on topping 500,000 views on this amazing poem. Watch more from Patrick here and here.
And while you’re here, make sure to check out our other books and merch as well, including our awesome t-shirts and poster and books by Jacqui Germain, Hanif Abdurraqib, Olivia Gatwood, and Aaron Coleman!
Performing at Honey in Minneapolis.
“How lonely it must be to come from desire but end where light ends.”
Don’t miss this marvelous poem from Hieu Minh Nguyen, performing at Honey in Minneapolis. Check out Hieu’s phenomenal book, “This Way to the Sugar”.
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A poetry film by Motionpoems.
“How do you raise a Black child? From the dead. With pallbearers who are half as young as their faces suggest and twice the oxen they should be.”
Don’t miss this magnificent film from Motionpoems, inspired by Cortney Lamar Charleston. Join our mailing list and get notified for our next submission period!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out all our books and merch, including books by Neil Hilborn, Danez Smith, Hanif Abdurraqib, Jacqui Germain, Sam Sax, our newest release from Olivia Gatwood & more.