Performed in Longmont, CO
“Tell me again how you intend to rescue their women. How you will teach them how to read in the schools you have turned to prisons, how you will offer them doctors in the hospitals you have burned with their children inside.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
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Performed at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA
“I’ve got a hamper that’s overflowing with really really loud mistakes.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA
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Performed at the Button Studio
“”I stare at the mother I refuse to become.””
Don’t miss this poem from Blythe Baird, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed at The Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“”Newly awakened grief has hands wrapped around his neck twisted like rosary beads tightening in prayer clinging to the last breath of his body like a final amen.””
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at The Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY
“Who would sign up to love something so impermanent?”
Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“Being directly, explicitly ordered around by commercials, magazines, music, and media is dehumanizing.”
Don’t miss this poem from Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“A reminder that sometimes, the best response is nothing at all, a blank screen that says ‘user not found.'”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“On Thursday, I got into a car accident, and my hands already started calling him. I hung up before he couldn’t answer.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“I re-emerged revolution in my ugly, Monarch Majesty butterfly brilliancelike I said I was.”
Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at the Button Studio
“Rumor has it politicians don’t take too kindly to paper cuts or other proof that once upon a time they were mortal.”
Don’t miss this poem from Darius Simpson, performing at the Button Studio
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