Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“Being angry at dying people is never fair. They need you. You’re the one that’s still alive.”
Don’t miss this cathartic poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis
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“Let them hear our music. Let them know: we are here. We will not be quiet”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Usman Hameedi! Congrats Poet!
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Performed at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston, MA
“Our culture is not an apology. Thunder our ancestry, let them hear our music. Let them know: we are here. We will not be quiet.”
Don’t miss this empowering poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at The Roxbury Poetry Festival in Boston
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Performed at the Button Studio
“We laugh so hard it hurts. We hurt so quiet we dance.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Darius Simpson, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed at the Button Studio
“A poem is not the same thing as a baby. But neither are easy to make, despite what you think. Both are made from love or last minute.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Ebony Stewart, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“You are no paper lantern, you are the sun, a swan, a brightly lit paper thing. You are a woman, stronger than cancer, your heart deeper than any scalpel could ever reach.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at IWPS 2015
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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!
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“We teach boys that in order to become men they have to kill off their emotional selves.”
Congratulations to Javon Johnson for topping 250,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Javon here and here.
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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
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“She who will not submit. She who will not be silent or tolerant, shame, shield, or sheet. She who took all her fruit and fuck yo garden.”
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, or check out our newest release from Robert Wood Lynn!
