Ty Chapman is the author of SARAH RISING (Beaming 2022); LOOKING FOR HAPPY (Beaming 2023); A DOOR MADE FOR ME, written with Tyler Merritt (WorthyKids 2022); TARTARUS (Button Poetry 2024); as well as multiple forthcoming children’s books through various publishers. Ty was a finalist for Tin House’s 2022 Fall Residency, Button Poetry’s 2020 Chapbook Contest, and Frontier Magazine’s New Voices Contest.

Ty’s accomplishments also include being named a Loft Literary Center Mirrors & Windows fellow, Mentor Series fellow, and attending Vermont College of Fine Arts in pursuit of his Master’s Degree in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults.

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“A reminder that sometimes, the best response is nothing at all, a blank screen that says ‘user not found.'”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“On Thursday, I got into a car accident, and my hands already started calling him. I hung up before he couldn’t answer.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“I re-emerged revolution in my ugly, Monarch Majesty butterfly brilliancelike I said I was.”

Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

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Performed at the Button Studio

“Rumor has it politicians don’t take too kindly to paper cuts or other proof that once upon a time they were mortal.”

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.”

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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“always wondering if this will be the last dusk without her.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

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Performed at The Town Hall in New York, NY

“The death of a people is not meant to sound like a camera’s click.”

Don’t miss this poem from Urban Word, performing at The Town Hall in New York, NY

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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“Oppie, how’d you do it? I get lonely halfway between my house and Chicago, If I’m alone in a hotel room for two days I forget how to speak, I get lonesome when the cell service drops out.”

Don’t miss this poem from Neil Hilborn, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“the memory of a dream becoming translucent in the morning light”

Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

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