Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“A closed fist can punch through a wall but you can’t fix the hole until you open your hands”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed her poem “Fear”
“Fear must be coming out but still having to pretend to be someone else.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ebony Stewart, performing her poem “Fear”
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“Scripted does not mean fake”
Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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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 Rustbelt 2019
“When a black child is born, she will be sentenced to prison eventually.”
Don’t miss this poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at Rustbelt 2019
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Performed at The Town Hall in New York, NY
“This isn’t a coincidence, our voice is what they want to silence, but I’ll keep my chin up, and my fist held high.”
Don’t miss this poem from Amiyah Anderson, performing at The Town Hall in New York, NY
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“Months from now, I hope you stumble across the picture, and are ambushed by your own radiance.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at the Stonewall International Poetry Slam in Baltimore, MD
“By all means, pray about it but get back to me when you are ready to do the work. Because faith without works is…”
Don’t miss this poem from Duke the Root, performing at the Stonewall International Poetry Slam in Baltimore, MD
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“As we march we sing and when the wave comes, oh, let us light up the night”
Don’t miss this poem from Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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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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