Best of Button – Week 25

“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: Blythe Baird, Elyssa Cook, and Sierra DeMulder! Congrats Poets!

Come back each week to see our newest and most popular videos.

While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Rudy Francisco!

Rudy Francisco – This song makes me cry. Wanna hear it?

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“It begins like it doesn’t want to interrupt your day, but needs a few minutes of your time.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

Get Rudy’s book, Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky.

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Elyssa Cook – Nobody Stopped Us

Performed at the Button Studio

“I don’t remember when we started laughing at horrible things, just that we did.”

Don’t miss this poem from Elyssa Cook, performing at the Button Studio

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Blythe Baird – My Power

Performed at the Button Studio

“After another unrequited love leaves me with dandelions wilting in my fists.”

Don’t miss this poem from Blythe Baird, performing at the Button Studio

Get Blythe Baird’s book, Sweet, Young, & Worried.

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Sierra DeMulder – Who made the music?

Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY

“I don’t know exactly what a prayer is, but tonight I listen to a dying woman sing. Her body waterless, her tongue a dark dried rose, she knew all the words even from the other side of morphine’s ponds.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY

Get Sierra’s book, Ephemera.

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Best of Button – Week 24

“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: Rudy Francisco, Lino Anunciacion, Darius Simpson, and Scout Bostley! Congrats Poets!

Come back each week to see our newest and most popular videos.

While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Rudy Francisco!

King Yaw – Black Bible

Performed at the Stonewall International Poetry Slam in Baltimore, MD

“If my body is a holy book, your honor, then it is no coincidence that the bible is the most stolen or the most sold.”

Don’t miss this poem from King Yaw, performing at the Stonewall International Poetry Slam in Baltimore, MD

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Lino Anunciacion – What Makes A Good Person

Performed their poem “What Makes A Good Person”

“Sometimes they’re sitting in a storm, sap leaking out of them, lava spilling out of their mouths when they ask me, ‘Lino, what makes a good person?”

Don’t miss this poem from Lino Anunciacion, performing their poem “What Makes A Good Person”

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Andrea Gibson – Etiquette Leash

Performed in Longmont, CO

“It is never polite to throw back the tear gas.”

Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO

Get Andrea’s book, You Better Be Lightning.

Rudy Francisco – There aren’t enough songs

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“Whenever the weekend is visited by the Saint of Empty Schedules, we throw a party in his honor but only invite ourselves.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

Get Rudy’s book, Excuse Me As I Kiss The Sky.