Congratulations to Poetry Slam, Inc. on topping 2,000,000 views on their YouTube channel! All of the performances we film from finals stages at the annual Women of the World Poetry Slam, National Poetry Slam, and Individual World Poetry Slam go up over there, so make sure to subscribe and check it all out!
“Unless you have a smile from ear to ear, the world will never accept you.”
Don’t miss our final video from the 2015 Get Lit Classic Slam, featuring incredible student poets from across Southern California!
“My depression is a shapeshifter. One day it’s as small as a firefly in the palm of a bear; the next, it’s the bear.”
Congratulations to Sabrina Benaim on becoming the fourth poet on the Button YouTube to top 3,000,000 views on her video! Check it out below.
“Loneliness is my specialty, like trembling is that of an earthquake, or how a closet is supposed to hide all the right parts of me.”
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: Iain Kohn, Rachel Wiley, Crystal Valentine, & Carrie Rudzinski. Congratulations poets!
“My hobbies include editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors, and trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following.”
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: Rudy Francisco, Khamal Iwuanyanwu, Tonya Ingram & Bobby Crawford. Congratulations poets!
“Maybe he saw through the masks I built ever since I realized that sometimes it’s safer in costume.”
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: Javon Johnson and Patrick Roche. Congratulations poets!
“It’s funny, how I remember most the flaring octave of his laughter. His hands, mostly skin now, hold vacant and deliberate at my sleeve.”
Check out this amazing poem from Hieu Minh Nguyen, performing at Button Poetry Live. If you’re in the Twin Cities area, don’t miss December’s show on Monday night! Check it out here.
“If your God really wanted you in my pants, he would’ve made you me.”
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: Theresa Davis, Crystal Valentine, and Amber Tambyln. Congratulations poets!
“If you develop an eating disorder when you are already thin to begin with, you to go the hospital. If you develop an eating disorder when you are not thin to begin with, you are a success story.”
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: Blythe Baird and a group piece from the House Slam team. Congratulations poets!
