Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“she feels like my mother and not just a person who is watching the same man die.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
Get Ollie’s book, Dead Dad Jokes.
“
Performed at The Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“”Newly awakened grief has hands wrapped around his neck twisted like rosary beads tightening in prayer clinging to the last breath of his body like a final amen.””
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at The Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
Get Ollie’s book, Dead Dad Jokes.
“
Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“On Thursday, I got into a car accident, and my hands already started calling him. I hung up before he couldn’t answer.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
Get Ollie’s book, Dead Dad Jokes
Performed
“What do you call it when you cremate your father’s body? I can’t talk about it, it’s un-buriable.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing
Get Ollie’s book, Dead Dad Jokes.
Performed at the Button Studio
“My cousin Henry sends me a photo of my father, and I time-travel. I glitch on his smile, how I held his body.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button Studio
Get Ollie’s book, Dead Dad Jokes.
“I say, ‘I am fat.’ He says, ‘no, you’re beautiful.’ I wonder why I cannot be both.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Sierra DeMulder, Rachel Wiley, Ollie Schminkey, Darius Simpson, Sabrina Benaim, Hanif Abdurraqib, Arianna Monet, Rudy Francisco, and Maggie Smith! Congrats Poets!
Come back each week to see our newest and most popular videos.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Matt Coonan!
“But to tell me you know my pain is to stab yourself in the leg because you saw me get shot. We have two different wounds, and looking at yours does nothing to heal mine.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Darius Simpson, Scout Bostley, Rachel Wiley, Ollie Schminkey, Keyma Flight, Sierra DeMulder, and Tess Siegel! Congrats Poets!
Come back each week to see our newest and most popular videos.
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Poetry By Chance An Anthology of Poems Powered By Metaphor Dice Edited by Taylor Mali!
Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“Even after my father died I couldn’t go for a walk, or take a bath, or laugh at a stupid TV show without the guilt burning in my knuckles. The alchemy of dying joy transformed to shame at the first cough.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
Get Ollie’s book, Dead Dad Jokes.
Performed at the Button studio
“The truth is, the body wants to live, and so there is always gasping.”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Button studio
Get Ollie’s book, Dead Dad Jokes.
Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
“I think if nature was anything they’d have to be trans—all at once being alive and dead and always changing. And how many times have we all lost ourselves in the woods and come out as someone worthy of a new name?”
Don’t miss this poem from Ollie Schminkey, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN
Get Ollie’s book, Dead Dad Jokes.