“Love had terrible rhythm on the dance floor, but made sure we never missed a slow song.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Gabby Elvessie, Ollie Schminkey, Ebony Stewart, Schockie G., Nick Courmon, Jasmine Parks, Darian Dauchan, Jazzonfire, Angela Kong, Mario Reyes, Maria Michelle, Porshe Veu, and Meghann Plunkett! Congrats Poets!

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“Love had terrible rhythm on the dance floor, but made sure we never missed a slow song.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, and Ebony Stewart! Congrats Poets!

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Performed at The Ill List 2023, in Modesto, CA.

“He say he tired of not being the hero in my poems, I say me too.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ebony Stewart, performing at The Ill List 2023, in Modesto, CA.

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Performed at The Ill List 2023, in Modesto, CA.

“My pussy ain’t never been interested in taking nothing that didn’t belong to her.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ebony Stewart, performing at The Ill List 2023, in Modesto, CA.

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“Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Neil Hilborn, Ebony Stewart, and Sierra DeMulder! Congrats Poets!

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Performed her poem “Fear”

“Fear must be coming out but still having to pretend to be someone else.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ebony Stewart, performing her poem “Fear”

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“Your job is not just to look up and imagine, your job is to look down and laugh. Your job is not just to understand flight. It’s to fly.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Ebony Stewart, Kyle ‘Guante’ Tran Myhre, Steven Willis, and Edwin Bodney! Congrats Poets!

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Performed at the Button Studio

“What she got on ain’t nothing to do with how she should be treated.”

Don’t miss this poem from Ebony Stewart, performing at the Button Studio

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“Dear universe, I’m still standing here. I’m still loving here, in this body, with this heart.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Ebony Stewart, Rudy Francisco, Raych Jackson, Blythe Baird, and Reagan Myers! Congrats Poets!

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Performed at the Button Studio

Don’t miss this elevating poem from Ebony Stewart, performing at the Button Studio.

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