Performing at AWP
“My love is a superpower. Got it from my mama who gave me her blood and my daddy’s last name. I am named after a love that refused to break.”
Don’t miss this inspiring poem from Ariana Brown, performing at AWP in San Antonio, TX
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Performed by Steven Willis
“I’m not the right’s monster, I’m not the left’s martyr. I’m just dead.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Steven Willis, performing for #theoneactseries.
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Performing at Gray Area
“Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.”
Don’t miss this incredible poem from Phil Kaye, performing at Gray Area in San Francisco, CA.
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“We can talk about guns, we can talk about access to mental health, but why aren’t we talking about men?”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre! Congrats Poet!
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Performing at Park Square Theatre
“Recovery is a choice. It is one you have to believe you can make for yourself. It is not sink or swim. It is getting out of the water.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Daniel, performing at Park Square Theatre in Saint Paul, MN
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Performed at the Button Studio
“Is darkness only ever thought of as sinister? Or is my villain origin story placed in an idea that I should still have to save a world that excludes or refuses to choose me?”
Don’t miss this awesome poem from Ebony Stewart, performed at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN.
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“The first said: you must be a man, as much as you want it. Then offered a glass of water, which is to say, ‘have I not baptized you enough?’”
Congratulations to Tonya Ingram for topping 1,000,000 views on this stunning poem! Watch more from Tonya here and here.
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Performed by Patrick Roche
“Saint of the quiet anxiety / Of the off-brand panic attack / Saint of attacking”
Don’t miss this great poem from Patrick Roche, performed and recorded in his home.
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“This is war by Copaganda. Turn your favorite Black radical into Officer Friendly. Give them a seat in middle-class America with a budget the size of a buddy cop film.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Steven Willis! Congrats Poet!
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Performing at Park Square Theatre
“When I call into a job, it’s usually because I have a fever, cold, the flu, feel so fatigued it hurts to move. I cannot tell my boss that I am sick of being Black. Can’t tell her I won’t be in today because there’s another Trayvon, Charleston, Ferguson in my newsfeed.”
Don’t miss this great poem from Tanesha Nicole, performing Park Square Theatre in Saint Paul, MN.
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