“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!
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!
“I wish I was a photograph tucked into the corners of your wallet. I wish I was a photograph you carried like a future in your back pocket.”
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, including books by Dave Harris, George Abraham, Ebony Stewart, William Evans, Michael Lee, Andrea Gibson, Rachel Wiley, and our newest release from Darius Simpson!
“Good god, there isn’t a healthy body in the world that is stronger than a sick person’s spirit.”
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, including books by Dave Harris, George Abraham, Natasha T. Miller, Porsha Olayiwola, L.E. Bowman, Andrea Gibson, Rachel Wiley, and our newest release from Darius Simpson!
“My body is not a temple; it’s a chandelier of strange fruit, a museum of memories.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Ebony Stewart! Congrats Poet!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Dave Harris, George Abraham, Natasha T. Miller, Porsha Olayiwola, L.E. Bowman, Andrea Gibson, Rachel Wiley, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!
Performing at Rustbelt 2018
“An ode to crocs: You rubber god, you who let me walk on water and sidewalk and mountain without changing shoes. People of all ages see you on my feet and laugh.”
Don’t miss this great poem from Darius Simpson, performing at Rustbelt 2018 in Detroit, MI
Get Darius’ incredible book, Never Catch Me.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Rudy Francisco, Rachel Wiley, Dave Harris, Porsha Olayiwola, Ebony Stewart, Andrea Gibson, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!
Performing at Gray Area
“Color blooms through every city whether you see it or don’t, whether you seek it or don’t. So why not seek? Why not see? Why not ask yourself: Who am I looking for?”
Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Sarah Kay, performing at Gray Area in San Francisco, CA
Get Sarah’s fantastic book, No Matter the Wreckage.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Rudy Francisco, Rachel Wiley, Dave Harris, Porsha Olayiwola, Ebony Stewart, Andrea Gibson, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!
“You can’t ‘beat’ death, you can only dance a little more slippery, drum a little more timelessly, hold that note beyond your breath, and hope to find a home in its echo.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre! Congrats Poet!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Dave Harris, George Abraham, Natasha T. Miller, Porsha Olayiwola, L.E. Bowman, Andrea Gibson, Rachel Wiley, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!
Performing at WoWPS 2020
“I dig for the 12 million names of my people that could never fit in American mouths. I dig for the alphabet anglicized out of tune with the music they hid under their tongues. I dig for the names they carved out of English to sound like song again.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Aris Kian, performing at WoWPS 2020 in Dallas, TX
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Rudy Francisco, Rachel Wiley, Dave Harris, Porsha Olayiwola, Ebony Stewart, Andrea Gibson, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!
Performed in Longmont, CO
“What if we don’t have to be healed to be whole?”
Don’t miss this amazing poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
Get Andrea’s stunning book, Dead Dad Jokes.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Rudy Francisco, Rachel Wiley, Dave Harris, Porsha Olayiwola, Ebony Stewart, Andrea Gibson, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!
Performing at the Button Studio
“When we are both sober, I have no fucking clue what to say to him, but on the road trip, we drink cheap whiskey outside of a hot tub until we like each other.”
Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN
Get Ollie’s award-winning book, Dead Dad Jokes.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Rudy Francisco, Rachel Wiley, Dave Harris, Porsha Olayiwola, Ebony Stewart, Andrea Gibson, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!
