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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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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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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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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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“A closed fist can punch through a wall but you can’t fix the hole until you open your hands”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed her poem “Fear”
“Fear must be coming out but still having to pretend to be someone else.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ebony Stewart, performing her poem “Fear”
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“Scripted does not mean fake”
Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Rustbelt 2019
“When a black child is born, she will be sentenced to prison eventually.”
Don’t miss this poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at Rustbelt 2019
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“Months from now, I hope you stumble across the picture, and are ambushed by your own radiance.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“As we march we sing and when the wave comes, oh, let us light up the night”
Don’t miss this poem from Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
Get Guante’s book, Not A Lot of Reasons to Sing, But Enough.
