Performed at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
“Teach me to be a person without a nation, on the other side of enslavement. I will write to you always.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ariana Brown, performing at Project Row Houses in Houston, TX
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Performed in NYC
“The first protagonist in all recorded literary history, a man, makes love to men, and hey, guess what? He doesn’t die.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC
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“Love had terrible rhythm on the dance floor, but made sure we never missed a slow song.”
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Performed performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
“I’d give it all again: my bodily wholeness, my blood–just a penance, a sacrament, a levy on the road to you.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
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Performed performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
“An eviction notice is a lot heavier than it looks.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.
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Performed at Gray Area in San Francisco, CA
“We both wonder sometimes what the other stands for, as if home weren’t always a mirror we mistake for a wall.”
Don’t miss this poem from Phil Kaye, performing at Gray Area in San Francisco, CA
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Performed at The Ill List 2023, in Modesto, CA.
“He say he tired of not being the hero in my poems, I say me too.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ebony Stewart, performing at The Ill List 2023, in Modesto, CA.
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Performed performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
“The soul misses what the body could not let go–what else could hold on that tightly to everything?”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
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Performed in NYC
“Trust a stranger like the desperate do. In order to survive, pride banishes my guilt”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“I play my daughter’s ukulele and the strings want to know what they did to deserve this kind of torture.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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