Performed at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.

“as a boy, my father once trained a crow to return nightly to the porch. i try to train my memory the same way.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.

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Performed at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.

“I wondered, how many nights he pushed down his panic, how often he reached out a hand to God, all of his prayers whispered like prescription drugs.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.

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Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.

“To talk about you feels like describing a landscape through a telescope—distorted, magnified into a few blurry features.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.

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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“If a dragon is hoarding gold, is it not the duty of knights to separate the head from the neck? Are we not knights, sir?”

Don’t miss this poem from Neil Hilborn, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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Performed performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.

“Flying is not pushing away the ground.”

Don’t miss this poem from Andrea Gibson, performing performing at The Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, CO in 2021.

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Performed at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.

“I have this dream over and over, he dies but he’s still sick forever.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.

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Performed at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.

“the stench of dying, of an animal reborn.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN in 2023.

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Performed at Icehouse 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 Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

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Performed at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.

“We are the rich dropping lint into the open waiting hands of the needy.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sierra DeMulder, performing at Albany Barn in Albany, NY in 2023.

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Performed in NYC

“It seems our stories always end this way, but then again it seems we never have the chance to write them.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC

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