Performed at IWPS 2015
“I know what it means to embrace a blossom of angles that is both delicate and difficult.”
Don’t miss this poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at Rustbelt 2015
“No breaking things and putting them back together like nothing happened. This includes yourself.”
Don’t miss this poem from Siaara Freeman Bebe’s Kids, performing at Rustbelt 2015
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“I’m not saying you should end the world, but you could at least knock over a mailbox.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at Camp Bar in St. Paul, MN
“Being bit nickel never trusted, being Runaway share crop or castrated burned away in pieces”
Don’t miss this poem from Aaron Coleman, performing at Camp Bar in St. Paul, MN
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Performed at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
“There is no solace in rearranging language to make a different word tell the same lie.”
Don’t miss this poem from Clint Smith, performing at The Bell House in Brooklyn, NY
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Performed at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
“The hours passed smooth as the wine we downed, like we were pouring the blood back into our bodies.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“It’s okay to not be liked bitches. On our own until infinity bitches.”
Don’t miss this poem from Melissa Lozada-Oliva, performing at IWPS 2015
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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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It’s Publication Day for Smut Psalm!
Grab a copy of Josh Tvrdy’s book.
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.
