“I know a few things about healing, it’s not a good employee. It shows up when it’s ready, only works when it wants to.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Stella B, Sammi, Melissa Lozada Oliva, Sumbodies Mama, and Edwin Bodney! Congrats Poets!
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“I’m strong enough to hold my loved ones but I don’t know if I can support a home.”
Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
“Why call the police on a flock of angels and order them to circle until, exhausted, they fall from the sky?”
Don’t miss this poem from Matthew Richards, performing NorthBeast Regional 2023 Finals
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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“Now, I am gridlocked by my own emptiness. A knife interlocking with a knife.”
Don’t miss this poem from Anna Šverclová, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
“I realize now why flowers are too afraid to grow in sand. It’ll always be too draining. Too reserved, too detached and dry.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sammi, performing at WOWPS 2023 in Baltimore, MD
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“I know a few things about tomorrow. It’s kind of like a shadow, it’s hard to see when the sun isn’t bright but regardless it is there.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Chelsea Guevara, Liv, Shasparay, Lyrical Faith, Meccamorphosis, Rain, Darius Simpson, and Scout Bostley! Congrats Poets!
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Performed at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“Masculinity is just a costume I wear for safety, a performance which manhood has become the greatest theater for.”
Don’t miss this poem from Jarvis, performing at The 2023 Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
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Performed at The Town Hall in NY, during Black History Month 2024
“I still see the blue beating black until you see red and white. Is this your stars and stripes?”
Don’t miss this poem from Amiyah Anderson, performing at The Town Hall in NY, during Black History Month 2024
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“Dandelions are flowers in other countries, we just don’t find them pretty here.”
Don’t miss this poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
“There he is: Another fatherless son, ever clouding away like a drift.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ty Chapman, performing at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN.
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