Ollie Schminkey – Contrapuntal: The Hunter / The Alcoholic

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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Sierra DeMulder – New Vows

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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Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre – Ten Responses to the Phrase ‘Man Up’

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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Rudy Francisco – Ode to the Block Button

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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Ollie Schminkey – I Find a Chunk of Bone the Width of My Index Finger

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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Usman Hameedi – The Autobiography of My Eyebrows

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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Darius Simpson – There’s Fires To Start

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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Sierra DeMulder – Waiting

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“always wondering if this will be the last dusk without her.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

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Neil Hilborn – Opportunity Wake Up

Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“Oppie, how’d you do it? I get lonely halfway between my house and Chicago, If I’m alone in a hotel room for two days I forget how to speak, I get lonesome when the cell service drops out.”

Don’t miss this poem from Neil Hilborn, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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Sierra DeMulder – How to Define you

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“the memory of a dream becoming translucent in the morning light”

Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

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