“I have been wondering, mostly, if love and sanity are the same thing. When I say I am in love I am also saying the world makes sense to me right now.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button Playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the Button YouTube channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Sam Rush, Steven Willis, and Neil Hilborn. Congratulations poets!
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“Ever since a cop told me that my son looks older than he actually is, I don’t let him walk home from school anymore.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button Playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the Button YouTube channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Will Evans, Kai Davis, Miriam Harris, and Patrick Roche. Congratulations poets!
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“The strongest I have ever felt was the first time I said no to a drink. I have said no every morning since September 29, 2008.”
Today, Michael Lee celebrates seven years of sobriety. Check out his inspiring poem about addiction and recovery below.
This poem was performed and filmed at the Soap Boxing Poetry Slam in Saint Paul, which has recently joined forces with Button Poetry to create Button Poetry Live, a new monthly show featuring some of the top poets from around the country as well as local performers. If you’re in the Twin Cities area, don’t miss our Grand Opening on Monday, October 5th at Camp Bar in Downtown Saint Paul. Tickets available here (for priority seating) or at the door.
Congratulations to Lily Myers for “Shrinking Women” becoming the third poem on the Button YouTube channel to top 5,000,000 views! Check out the video below, and make sure to check out her work and more in VIRAL, our eBook anthology.
“My mother tells me I am a bird, but when she says I am a bird she means the whole world is my cage.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button Playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the Button YouTube channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Sabrina Benaim and Gabriel Ramirez. Congratulations poets!
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“I have a heart the same size as a fist. I didn’t find self-love until I gave myself a beating.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button Playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the Button YouTube channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Tucker Bryant, Alex Dang, and Aja Monet. Congratulations poets!
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“One day, I plan to love so loudly, my body abandons every demon harvesting me.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button Playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the Button YouTube channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Arati Warrier, Sarah Kay & Rachel Wiley. Congratulations poets!
And don’t forget to check out our newest project, Button Poetry Live! Only one week left to help support!
Neil Hilborn’s poem ” OCD” just became the first poem on the Button YouTube to top 10,000,000 views! And it just so happens to be Neil’s birthday. Happy birthday Neil, and congratulations on the milestone! Also, you can get 15% off any order today containing Neil’s book, Our Numbered Days, with the coupon code “happybirthdayneil” at checkout!
“I grew up learning how to protect men who hate me.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button Playlist, featuring the hottest recent videos on the Button YouTube channel. Updated every week! Today’s additions: Crystal Valentine, Aaliyah Jihad, and Ellyn Touchette. Congratulations poets!
Danez Smith is the winner of a 2014 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. They are the author of Homie (Graywolf), Don’t Call Us Dead (Graywolf), “[insert] boy” (YesYes Books, 2014), one of the Boston Globe’s Best Poetry Books of 2014, & two chapbooks– “black movie” (Button Poetry, 2015), winner of the 2014 Button Poetry Prize, & “hands on ya knees” (Penmanship Books, 2013).
Smith is a Cave Canem, VONA, and McKnight Foundation Fellow. Their writing has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry Journal, Narrative & elsewhere. They were featured in The Academy of American Poets’ Emerging Poets Series by Patricia Smith. They are a founding member of the multi-genre, multicultural collective Dark Noise. Danez placed second at the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam and is the two-time Rustbelt Regional Champion. In 2014, they were the Festival Director for the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam. Danez holds a BA from UW-Madison where they were a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar. They live in Minneapolis, MN.