“My truth is fire and brimstone running down from the eyes of heaven, so I make umbrellas out of my insecurities just to stand there in the flames.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Wayne Henry! Congrats Poet!
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Performed at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
Don’t miss this superb poem from Hakeem Furious, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
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Performed at Exit 36 Poetry Festival
Don’t miss this excellent poem from Wayne Henry, performing at Exit 36 Poetry Festival
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Performed at the Button Studio
“We sang only of the joys, the pastel weekends, & the good things that must live in a place we haven’t been to yet.”
Don’t miss this beautiful poem from Blythe Baird, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
Don’t miss this great poem from Joe Mac, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
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Performed at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
“The answer to any question is not a trump that raises a wall, it’s a trumpet that brings one down.”
Don’t miss this spectacular poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at IWPS 2019 in San Diego, CA
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Rudy Francisco is one of the most recognizable names in Spoken Word Poetry. At the age of 21, Rudy completed his B.A in Psychology and decided to continue his education by pursuing a M.A in Organizational Studies. As an artist, Rudy Francisco is an amalgamation of social critique, introspection, honesty and humor. He uses personal narratives to discuss the politics of race, class, gender and religion while simultaneously pinpointing and reinforcing the interconnected nature of human existence. Francisco is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Helium (Button Poetry, 2017), I’ll Fly Away (Button Poetry, 2020) and Excuse Me As I Kiss the Sky (Button Poetry, 2023). Rudy was the first spoken word poet to perform on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and was most recently seen on ABC’s The Bachelorette as the contestant’s poetry coach.
Sean Patrick Mulroy is a writer, actor, visual artist, and musician from the American South, who now lives all over the world. A nationally recognized writer in the US, Sean is a performer, an award winning professor, and earned his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sean is a 2013 Lambda Literary Fellow, a 2017-2018 Writer-in-Residence at The Kerouac Project in Orlando Florida, and a 2019 Writer in Residence at Villa Sarkia in Sysma, Finland. He is the author of Hated for the Gods (Button Poetry), Winner of the 2020 Button Poetry Prize.
Matt Mason is the Nebraska State Poet and, through the US State Department, has run poetry programs in Botswana, Romania, Nepal and Belarus. Mason is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Nebraska Arts Council. His work can be found in The New York Times, on NPR’s Morning Edition, in American Life in Poetry and more. Mason’s 4th book, At the Corner of Fantasy and Main: Disneyland, Midlife and Churros, was released by The Old Mill Press in 2022.
“In response to those who say I write too many love poems…”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Tess Siegel! Congrats Poet!
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