Sierra DeMulder – How to Define you

Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY

“Noun: a vase hovering on the edge of a table, a knife stuck softly in the ceiling.”

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Sierra DeMulder – Sacral Chakra

Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY

“The womb carries, and I wonder what sort of collections it has by now.”

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Rudy Francisco – My Honest Poem

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“I’m afraid that if I let you see my skeletons, you’ll grind my bones into powder and get high on my fault lines.”

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Junious ‘Jay’ Ward – Google Image Search: Boston Massacre

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“America renamed us: nuisance. But history will concede our place.”

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Andrea Gibson – The Last Hours

Performed in Longmont, CO

“Now tonight, this simple garden is its own church as she tells me about the last hours of her grandfather’s life.”

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Usman Hameedi – Waiting Room

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“All that I have taken for granted keeps ringing in my ears with the same metronome as his life support.”

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Rudy Francisco – Why Are You Still In Bed?

Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“Because, this morning, I made a list of all of my top priorities. I am one of them.”

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Rudy Francisco – A Few Things

Performed at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego, CA

“I believe that masculinity is a wet fish that most men are just trying to hold onto.”

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Blythe Baird – Series of Short Poems #1

Performed at the Button Studio

“Oh how humbling it is to know, the body I threw stones at is still determined to write love letters to me.”

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