“My religion makes my breath smell too much like gunpowder.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Isha Camara, Andrea Gibson, Shane Hawley, Ry Irene! Congrats Poets!
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Featuring at Button Poetry Live.
“I could tell you about the many universes in which bad things happen to people other than the people you love.”
Don’t miss this amazing poem from Franny Choi, featuring at Button Poetry Live.
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Performing at Inside Voices.
“I regret every drink I never took.”
Don’t miss this remarkable poem from Kaveh Akbar, performing at Inside Voices.
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Featuring at Button Poetry Live.
“Our bodies remember what our senses forget.”
Don’t miss this breathtaking poem from Emi Mahmoud, featuring at Button Poetry Live.
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“My name wasn’t given to me. It was given to the rest of the country.”
Congratulations to Pages Matam, Elizabeth Acevedo, & G. Yamazawa for topping 100,000 views on this powerful poem! Watch more videos from the 2014 Beltway Poetry Slam Team here!
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2018 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“Sometimes, I just want to be Muslim without feeling like that’s something brave, because sometimes I don’t want to be brave.”
Don’t miss this incredible poem by Sana Mayat, a selection from the 2018 Button Poetry Video Contest!
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Featuring at Icehouse.
“I learned love as taxidermy, the careful art of keeping alive a dead thing.”
Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Blythe Baird, featuring at Icehouse in Minneapolis.
Blythe’s book, IF MY BODY COULD SPEAK, is now available!
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Performing at Button Poetry Live.
“I never thought that my tongue would betray me the way it had others.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Kofi Dadzie, performing at Button Poetry Live.
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“You know nothing of love until you watch someone go hungry for you. Even then, what do you know of hunger?”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Dave Harris, Sabrina Benaim, & Miss K! Congrats Poets!
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Featuring at the 2018 Get Lit Classic Slam.
“There’s a good chance I’m a bad person; trying to do something right.”
Don’t miss this magnificent poem from Buddy Wakefield, performing during the 2018 Get Lit Words Ignite Classic Slam, the largest youth poetry tournament in Southern California. Order Get Lit Rising today at simonandschuster.com, and join the #LiteraryRiot at getlit.org.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, Blythe Baird, & our newest release from Desireé Dallagiacomo!