Performed at IWPS 2015

“You are no paper lantern, you are the sun, a swan, a brightly lit paper thing. You are a woman, stronger than cancer, your heart deeper than any scalpel could ever reach.”

Don’t miss this powerful poem from Junious ‘Jay’ Ward, performing at IWPS 2015

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Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Andrea Gibson! Congrats Poet!

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“We teach boys that in order to become men they have to kill off their emotional selves.”

Congratulations to Javon Johnson for topping 250,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Javon here and here.

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Performed in Longmont, CO

“I suffer from unrequited self love. I love myself, but I don’t love myself back.”

Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Andrea Gibson, performing in Longmont, CO

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“She who will not submit. She who will not be silent or tolerant, shame, shield, or sheet. She who took all her fruit and fuck yo garden.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Ebony Stewart! Congrats Poet!

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Performed at the Button Studio

“She who will not submit. She who will not be silent or tolerant, shame, shield, or sheet. She who took all her fruit and fuck yo garden.”

Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Ebony Stewart, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN

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“My grandmother’s mind was a ballroom. Inside were her memories, each one dressed for a celebration.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Phil Kaye! Congrats Poet!

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Performed at Little Island

“My grandmother’s mind was a ballroom. Inside were her memories, each one dressed for a celebration.”

Don’t miss this stunning poem from Phil Kaye, performing at Little Island in New York, NY

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“You know better than most of us that we don’t get all our words from books or bodies. Good religion comes to us when we need it most, even if we don’t recognize it.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Zach Goldberg! Congrats Poet!

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“Some nights I put on my father’s chalk outline and I teach it how to walk.”

Congratulations to Siaara Freeman for topping 1,000,000 views on this phenomenal poem! Watch more from Siaara here and here.

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