Performed his poem “Summer, New York City”
“Praise you, boys on bicycles who tell me to ‘watch your skinny ass’ when I know they mean ‘please be careful, we care about you and your relatively average sized ass.’”
Don’t miss this poem from Phil Kaye, performing his poem “Summer, New York City”
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Performed at Rustbelt 2019
“A lot of folk love to be surrounded by Black culture, but not necessarily Black people.”
Don’t miss this poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at Rustbelt 2019
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Performed in Longmont, CO
“…and I’d finally grown wise enough to never trust my preferences.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO
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Performed at the Button Studio
“My cousin Henry sends me a photo of my father, and I time-travel. I glitch on his smile, how I held his body.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed
“She carries a knife, just in case she finds something she wants to carve her name into.”
Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing
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Performed by Rudy Francisco
“We learn that the heart is the same size as the fist, but we keep forgetting they don’t have the same functions.”
Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing by Rudy Francisco
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Performed at the Button Studio
“What’s Black life to a murder machine? What good is mattering to a wolf’s front teeth?”
Don’t miss this poem from Darius Simpson, performing at the Button Studio
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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“Even after my father died I couldn’t go for a walk, or take a bath, or laugh at a stupid TV show without the guilt burning in my knuckles. The alchemy of dying joy transformed to shame at the first cough.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at the Button studio
“The truth is, the body wants to live, and so there is always gasping.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button studio
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Performed LIVE @ Button Poetry
“Everything that we think is shining is actually burning.”
Don’t miss this poem from Porsha Olayiwola, performing LIVE @ Button Poetry
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