Performed NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
“And it’s the first time all day my little bean runs into my arms when I call them.”
Don’t miss this poem from Christopher Clauss, performing NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
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Performed in NYC
“Thirty days of flyers. Thirty days of prayer and deli platters. Thirty days of missing. Thirty days, and dead the whole time.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC
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Performed at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
“For every good time to sing its tune throughout my cheeks it took a trail of skulls and spilled marrow to build a body worth continuing to sing to.”
Don’t miss this poem from EL, performing at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
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It’s Publication Day for I’d Rather Be Destroyed!
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Earnest and darkly funny, this collection rebuilds the self from its broken pieces. Playing with dynamic and experimental forms, Goldberg explores modern Jewish identity, familial and cultural inheritances, and managing mental health. Its historical and religious allusions navigate modern and personal conversations, reflecting how we embrace and reject the legacies that shape us. Sharp and captivating, I’d Rather Be Destroyed’s honesty and artistry make it a must-read.
PRAISE FOR ZACH
Zach Goldberg writes like an inventor, making the page his play ground. I’d Rather Be Destroyed is as brilliant as it is easeful. Each page is a home we are invited into. Each line is a table we sit down at, grateful.
—Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning
Dexterous and innovative, Goldberg’s poems traverse between intimate struggles to geopolitical conflicts. Moving from aching present to past and back again, these poems reach towards the possibility of healing, inviting us to reach for “Home, the place you leave / to find.” A beautiful debut!
—Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, 40 Weeks
I’d Rather Be Destroyed is an intricate map shepherding its reader into possibilities of home. Goldberg shows us that diaspora can be a nesting doll of ghosts, that correlations and revelations share a piercing proximity; a split-atom I understand more through its blaze.
—Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, Composition
“Sometimes, I look up at the night sky and it reminds me that people and planets aren’t so different. We all have an orbit, our energy decides what comes into our atmosphere.We all have our own gravity.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Porsha Olayiwola, Reagan Myers, Neil Hilborn, Sarah Kay, and Patrick Roche! Congrats Poets!
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“If you knew her you knew about the dream, the one where her fruitless body wished for the plum-skinned boy and then the boy walked through her front door.”
Don’t miss this poem from Donte Collins
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Performed at The Town Hall in NY, during Black History Month 2024
“it is indeed crazy to hide your feelings, but it is even crazier to experience the things love can truly make you do.”
Don’t miss this poem from Jazzmyne Odom, performing at The Town Hall in NY, during Black History Month 2024
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“Even while being eaten my pussy has an appetite”
Don’t miss this poem from Porsha Olayiwola, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
“It clicked that you, father, were a holy man who believed in honeyed concepts.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ty Chapman, performing at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
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In memory of Kelly “Native Child” Mays.
May her voice and impact live on.
Information on her life and her final journey, from the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe.
7 Videos of her work from 2017-2020:
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