Featuring at Button Poetry Live.
“How much further was I willing to bury who I was meant to become just to live a life that’s steady?”
Don’t miss this astounding poem from Asia Samson, featuring at Button Poetry Live.
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“My grandmother taught me tongue twisters so I remember where I come from, but I want to carry our history without carrying our trauma.”
Don’t miss this stunning poem from Zack Lesmeister, performing at Button Poetry Live.
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2018 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“This face is Black 24/7, I can’t turn it on and off based on time and place.”
Don’t miss this marvelous poem by Jaylene Clark Owens, RUNNER-UP in the 2018 Button Poetry Video Contest!
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“Black privilege is me having already memorized my nephew’s eulogy. My brother’s eulogy. My father’s eulogy. My unconceived child’s eulogy.”
Congratulations to Crystal Valentine on topping 1,000,000 views on this powerful poem! Watch more videos from Crystal here and here!
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“Why do they call it the land of the free when even the dead can’t leave?”
Don’t miss this magnificent poem from Emi Mahmoud, featuring at Button Poetry Live.
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Performing at the 2018 Get Lit Classic Slam.
“Our parents, like the Cyclops, indulged in fermented fruit. It doesn’t matter how thick blood is when alcohol is a blood thinner.”
Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Tabatha Perez & Eliza Hope Duran, performing during the 2018 Get Lit Words Ignite Classic Slam, the largest youth poetry tournament in Southern California. Order Get Lit Rising today at simonandschuster.com, and join the #LiteraryRiot at getlit.org.
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“It’s puzzling, isn’t it? To be a collector’s item for social justice, a demon child in some parts of your own country, a Nobel Prize in retrospect, and a nuisance to everyone else.”
Don’t miss this remarkable poem from Arvind Nandakumar, featuring at Button Poetry Live.
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“I forgive you, self, for all the years I could not love you.”
Don’t miss this awe-inspiring poem from Desireé Dallagiacomo, featuring at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
Desireé’s forthcoming book, SINK, dropping spring 2019, is now available for pre-order!
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2018 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“The gunshots fire backwards into the mouth of their maker, and there is no one to cleave love from love, and for this, we dance.”
Don’t miss this magnificent poem by Sanam Sheriff, WINNER of the 2018 Button Poetry Video Contest!
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