“This is for everything we own, and for the day we’ll learn how much we have when we learn to give that all away.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Andrea Gibson! Congrats Poet!
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Performed in Longmont, CO
Don’t miss this emotional poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
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“English is the shiniest hammer I own, but it’s also the only thing in my toolbox.”
“How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return? The rest remain forever trapped between worlds”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Andrea Gibson and Rudy Francisco! Congrats Poet!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Usman Hameedi!
Performed in Longmont, CO
Don’t miss this heartfelt poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
Get Andrea’s fantastic book, You Better Be Lightning.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Usman Hameedi!
Performed in Longmont, CO
“The worst thing that ever happened to you was not the worst thing that ever happened to you. Hating yourself for it was.”
Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
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Performed in Longmont, CO
“Lover, you will never lose me to the wind. You are the lightning that made me fill my chest with candles. You are the thunder clapping for the poem that nobody else wants to hear.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
Get Andrea’s excellent book, You Better Be Lightning.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Usman Hameedi!
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Andrea Gibson! Congrats Poet!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward!
Performed in Longmont, CO
“I suffer from unrequited self love. I love myself, but I don’t love myself back.”
Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
Get Andrea’s stunning book, You Better Be Lightning.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward!
Performed in Longmont, CO
“I changed my mind more often than I changed my socks, and whenever I was criticized for mismatched thoughts, I’d say, ‘Who wants to be today who they were yesterday?’”
Don’t miss this breathtaking poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
Get Andrea’s beautiful book, You Better Be Lightning.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Blythe Baird!
It’s the 1-Year Bookiversary of You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson!
We have LIMITED $25 signed copies!
AND 50% OFF paperbacks, eBooks, & audiobooks with code LIGHTNING.
ABOUT THE BOOK
2021 Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist!
You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by self-reflection.
The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world, exploring the expansiveness of the human experience from love to illness, from space to climate change, and so much more in between.
One of the most celebrated poets and performers of the last two decades, Andrea Gibson’s trademark honesty and vulnerability are on full display in this collection, welcoming and inviting readers to be just as they are.
SALE ENDS 11.13.22.
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