Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY
“You cough your congratulations, flimsy as gauze.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY
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Performed at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
“We want to believe that people will change but know they will not.”
Don’t miss this poem from Hakeem Furious, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
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Performed at the Button Studio
“These days I don’t want to make art that can’t also be a weapon against oppressors.”
Don’t miss this poem from Darius Simpson, performing at the Button Studio
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“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: Andrea Gibson, Rudy Francisco, and Sarah Kay! Congrats Poets!
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Performed their poem “Bloodlines”
“I would not be healed, but would it satisfy my fury?”
Don’t miss this poem from Amina ‘Illypsis’ Jordan-Melendez, performing their poem “Bloodlines”
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Performed at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“Because she gave man consciousness and watched him callously misplace credit, yet she is undeterred.”
Don’t miss this poem from Miya Coleman, performing at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“Sports kept many neighborhood kids out of trouble; my brother decided to pass that savior down to me.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
“You police my words back down my throat and they return with a vengeance.”
Don’t miss this poem from Lyric, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
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Performed in Longmont, CO
“Tell me again how you intend to rescue their women. How you will teach them how to read in the schools you have turned to prisons, how you will offer them doctors in the hospitals you have burned with their children inside.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
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“I’ve got a hamper that’s overflowing with really really loud mistakes.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Blythe Baird, Kate Leddy, Jael Benjamin! Congrats Poets!
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