Performed at IWPS 2015
“It’s okay to not be liked bitches. On our own until infinity bitches.”
Don’t miss this poem from Melissa Lozada-Oliva, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“The truth is scarier than any allegory. Lover, there is something inside you that burns down everything you love.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“The verbal diaspora of Africa shapes my spine, we cross our Ts like the middle passage, dot our Is with strange fruit, curve our Ss with Mid-Atlantic roots.”
Don’t miss this poem from Steven Willis, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed in NYC
“Everybody has a lover who loves them just like a clock being thrown from a moving car.”
Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“Degrees become a cheap fashion statement not even worth a trip to the mall.”
Don’t miss this poem from Javon Johnson, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“I fully understood why fathers begin hating little boys as soon as their daughters are born.”
Don’t miss this poem from Jay Ward, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
“The spirit aches most days. Immense blood cost of godhood. Our ichor free flowing fresh from the spigot.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ty Chapman, performing at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“He is the maple that didn’t drip too far from the scarred family tree.”
Don’t miss this poem from Usman Hameedi, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“Did you forget that we are children of God, Dylann? And who doesn’t love unexpected trips home?”
Don’t miss this poem from Steven Willis, performing at IWPS 2015
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Performed at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
“”I’ve left no trace, no trail, but prints along the shore, they too will vanish in the tide.””
Don’t miss this poem from Ty Chapman, performing at Poets & Pints in Minneapolis, MN
Get Ty’s book, Tartarus.