Blacqwildflowr – Dying to Live

Performed at the Stonewall International Poetry Slam in Baltimore, MD

“I will not die just for you to watch over my corpse mourning as I regret not giving myself the love that I deserve.”

Don’t miss this poem from Blacqwildflowr, performing at the Stonewall International Poetry Slam in Baltimore, MD

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Bhumika Billa – Sixteen

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“I can still hear some quiet beats in the crackling sounds of my old dreams.”

Don’t miss this poem from Bhumika Billa, GRAND PRIZE WINNER of the 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

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Ellen T. Dotts – Hood Dreams

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“Us hood kids knew there was more than the hood, and not only did we see it on TV, but on the faces of the ones who made it out to return and tell us stories.”

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Sparrow – The Joker’s Tale

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“May the hollows and hills of my face mark all the paths of which I trekked.”

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Jessica Thiru – darkness runs, bare boned.

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“Is that what a man’s wrath does? Sends darkness elsewhere with its teeth chattering.”

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Kenneth Bradley & Ren L[i]u – Love, Monster

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“Shrink smaller and smaller and look at what a good monster I have become.”

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Mary Maxfield – Call it a Catch Breath

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“Fatigue flowered like a fungus, a network of rotten blossoms blotting our guts, our hearts, our breath.”

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Madeline October – Ode to What’s Between My Legs

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“A goddess gleaming through the darkness, finally the girl of my dreams, never in spite, but because of you.”

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Shahamat Uddin – Hijra

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“She is smiling, not falling to these bullets because there are no more holes to make in her. She knows these wounds.”

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Kelsey Bigelow – Learned Instinct

Performed 2023 Button Poetry Video Contest

“I have learned to quiet, like mime, with helium in my heels and mute in my voice box.”

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