“As a young writer, I’m always led to believe that I’m supposed to compose a dead thing.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button Playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the Button YouTube channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Nkosi Nkululeko & Emily James. Congratulations poets!
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“You, ma’am, want me to be quiet. Want me black enough for decoration. Want me two words or less, obituary ready and dressed.”
Check out this amazing poem from the winner of December’s Button Poetry Live. If you’re in the Twin Cities, head over to January’s show tonight at Camp Bar! For the rest of you, we’re live streaming for the first time ever, so don’t miss it here at 8:00 PM CST.
“Ironic, isn’t it, that I can’t really do this life alone anymore, and this will keep me alone?”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button Playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the Button YouTube channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Anna Binkovitz, Jensen McRae, and Alex Copeland. Congratulations poets!
The Button YouTube channel just topped a hundred million views! What a way to ring in the new year. That’s over 450 years of poetry viewed on our channel in the last few years.
Endless thanks to all of you who have watched and shared these artists. Check out our most popular videos of all time below.
“To tell me you know my pain is to stab yourself in the leg because you saw me get shot. We have two different wounds, and looking at yours does nothing to heal mine.”
Finishing our countdown, here’s the top video on Button from 2015: “Lost Voices” by Darius Simpson & Scout Bostley. Congratulations poets!
“Every day I write a poem titled ‘Tomorrow’. It is a hand-written list of the people I know that love me, and I make sure to put my own name at the top.”
Heading into the new year, we’re counting down the top videos on Button from 2015! Coming in second on the list, “People You May Know” by Kevin Kantor. Congratulations Kevin!
“It is hard to stop loving the ocean, even after it’s left you gasping, salty.”
Heading into the new year, we’re counting down the top videos on Button from 2015! Coming in third on the list, “The Type” by Sarah Kay. Congratulations Sarah!
“Little girls with big ideas are much scarier than monsters.”
Heading into the new year, we’re counting down the top videos on Button from 2015! Coming in fourth on the list, “For Teenage Girls” by Clementine von Radics. Congratulations Clementine!
“Black privilege is me having already memorized my nephew’s eulogy, my brother’s eulogy, my father’s eulogy, my unconceived child’s eulogy.”
For the next five days heading into the new year, we’ll be counting down the top videos on Button from 2015! Coming in fifth on the list, “Black Privilege” by Crystal Valentine. Congratulations Crystal! Watch the video below.
“I don’t like goodbyes anymore. I force myself to say see you soon.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button Playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the Button YouTube channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: RJ Walker & Rob Gibsun. Congratulations poets!