Performed at IWPS 2015
“The truth is scarier than any allegory. Lover, there is something inside you that burns down everything you love.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“The verbal diaspora of Africa shapes my spine, we cross our Ts like the middle passage, dot our Is with strange fruit, curve our Ss with Mid-Atlantic roots.”
Don’t miss this poem from Steven Willis, performing at IWPS 2015
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Winner of Button Poetry’s 2023 Chapbook Contest, Josh Tvrdy’s Smut Psalm is a queer coming-of-age, equally drenched in religious guilt and eroticism.
Smut Psalm’s poems reckon with self-discovery and sexual curiosity–interspersed with “Church Board Interrogation” interludes, which act as a dialogue between a homophobic church voice and a witty, increasingly defiant poetic speaker. Altogether, Tvrdy crafts an intimate, surreal spectacle. Smut Psalm shapes the raw messiness of queer adolescence into its own kind of holiness. Charming and intoxicating, Tvrdy’s Smut Psalm is a strange, sinewy experience that can’t be missed.
ABOUT JOSH
Josh Tvrdy (he/him) is a writer, editor, and teacher from Tucson, Arizona. He recently graduated from North Carolina State University with an MFA in Poetry. Winner of a 2021 Pushcart Prize and Gulf Coast’s 2018 Prize in Poetry, his work can be found in POETRY, New England Review, Image Journal, The Georgia Review and elsewhere. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, hard at work on his first novel.
Performed at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“Maybe I’m trying to outrun that cal of conviction that mirrors staring back in front of my face.”
Don’t miss this poem from Najya Williams, performing at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
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Performed in NYC
“Everybody has a lover who loves them just like a clock being thrown from a moving car.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC
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Performed at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
“America been binge watching Black boys’ bodies broadcasted as breaking news as if it ever stopped being news at all.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ayanna Albertson, performing at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“Degrees become a cheap fashion statement not even worth a trip to the mall.”
Don’t miss this poem from Javon Johnson, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“I fully understood why fathers begin hating little boys as soon as their daughters are born.”
Don’t miss this poem from Jay Ward, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
“The spirit aches most days. Immense blood cost of godhood. Our ichor free flowing fresh from the spigot.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ty Chapman, performing at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Button Poetry Live, August 2018
“I’d rather be some kind of genderless thing, preferably some kind of noodle or bean, I’m still searching for my happy medium.”
Don’t miss this poem from Amir Khadar, performing at BPL August 2018
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