“It is the tenth time this year that my mental health has deferred me from cleaning my room.”

Congratulations to Julissa Emile on topping 100,000 views on this remarkable poem! Watch more videos from the 2018 Rustbelt Poetry Festival here!



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Featuring at The Fine Line.

“Thank you for saying there’s no need to open our relationship because being with me is already like being with fifty impossible people.”

Don’t miss this phenomenal poem from Andrea Gibson, featuring at The Fine Line in Minneapolis, MN.

Make sure to check out Andrea’s book, LORD OF THE BUTTERFLIES, now available!


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2017 Button Poetry Video Contest.

“Have you ever thought about what you’re supposed to do with your depression while walking?”

Don’t miss this beautiful poem by Timmy Sutton, featured contestant from the 2017 Button Poetry Video Contest!

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Performing at Button Poetry Live.

“My mother’s silence crucifies me out of love in hopes that we will both be saved from the devil.”

Don’t miss this magnificent poem from Tanesha Nicole, performing at Button Poetry Live.

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“Why do they call it the land of the free when even the dead can’t leave?”
 
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Emi Mahmoud, Zack Lesmeister, & Arvind Nandakumar! Congrats poets!
 
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Performing at Button Poetry Live.

“I am careful enough to consider addiction a family pattern.”

Don’t miss this awesome poem from James Hartzer, performing at Button Poetry Live.

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Performing at Button Poetry Live.

“I’ve seen enough dead things to know what I too shall become.”

Don’t miss this amazing poem from Rob Mitchell, performing at Button Poetry Live.

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2018 Button Poetry Video Contest.

“The women in my community never left the front lines, wore their ‘other’ around their heads and marched.”

Don’t miss this marvelous poem by Mohamed Hassan, RUNNER-UP in the 2018 Button Poetry Video Contest!

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