Performed at IWPS 2015
“Dandelions are flowers in other countries, we just don’t find them pretty here.”
Don’t miss this poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
“There he is: Another fatherless son, ever clouding away like a drift.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ty Chapman, performing at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN.
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Performed Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“Everyone tells me that my dad will always be watching over me, and I’m like, Shut up I’m just trying to masturbate.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
“our joints creak and sigh like old rocking chairs”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“You will know his presence like a miracle in reverse.”
Don’t miss this poem from Zach Goldberg, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
“We could make any of those specks of light the Big Dipper if we drew the lines right.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
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Performed at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
“that soft discordant tune that lacks soul and feels at home in hours as much as a horror, as a gunman lurking by the cracked basketball courts gripping a tin badge.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ty Chapman, performing at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“Praise the generations that brought a piece of them through customs. Authentic outfits, palettes, and audacity.””
Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
“”I believe it was her again, the lost sibling on the other side of time and blood, watching us from beyond a thousand unrewindable moments, in another world where I cannot reach her, where all unfinished things dwell.””
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.
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Performed at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
“I wore a flowered dress to my boy birthday party. Don’t look at me like that. I’m not the box the gift came in.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.
Get Andrea’s book, You Better Be Lightning.