“Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Andrea Gibson, Rudy Francisco, Amiyah Anderson, and Nora Cooper! Congrats Poets!

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Performed in Longmont, CO

“Tell me again how you intend to rescue their women. How you will teach them how to read in the schools you have turned to prisons, how you will offer them doctors in the hospitals you have burned with their children inside.”

Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO

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Performed in Longmont, CO

“Walking through the cemetery in my hometown, fixing the flowers on a stranger’s grave.”

Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO

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Performed in Longmont, CO

“Understanding why we’re bad at love doesn’t necessarily make us good at it.”

Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO

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“How could I not fall in love with my illness?”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Blythe Baird, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, Sabrina Benaim ! Congrats Poets!

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Performed in Longmont, CO

“…and I’d finally grown wise enough to never trust my preferences.”

Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO

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“A weapon will always be a weapon, but we choose how we fight the war.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Rachel Wiley, Sierra DeMulder, Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, and Sabrina Beniam! Congrats Poets!

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Performed

“She carries a knife, just in case she finds something she wants to carve her name into.”

Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing

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Performed in Longmont, CO

Don’t miss this amazing poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO

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The Button YouTube page recently reached our 3,000th video upload!

Thanks, as always, to all of our watchers, friends, supporters and artists for making this possible. Celebrate this momentous occasion by checking out our 3,000th video, Andrea Gibson performing “Say Yes”.

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