Joseph Capehart – “Fire Escape” (100K Views!)

“When asked what I wanted to be when I grew up, I said fire escape. Another way out when everything was burning.”

Congratulations to Joseph Capehart on topping 100,000 views on this phenomenal poem! Watch more videos from Joseph here and here!



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Daniel – “Flowers (or, A Beginner’s Guide to Surviving Sexual Assault)”


Performing at Button Poetry Live.

“It is okay to feel broken. Broken is where the healing begins. This is where we begin.”

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

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Marcel “Fable the Poet” Price – “Don’t Mind Me”

2017 Button Poetry Video Contest.

“Why at times does it feel like there’s nothing left but there is everything?”

Don’t miss this powerful poem by Marcel “Fable the Poet” Price, featured contestant from the 2017 Button Poetry Video Contest!

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Best of Button Week 187

“I should call you ghost before I call you father. Ain’t a ghost someone that came before you that keeps haunting you even when you never see them?”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Ephraim Nehemiah, & Sabrina Benaim! Congrats poets!

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Ajanae Dawkins – “For The Blonde Girl and the Classrooms of Ghosts”


Performing at the 2018 Rustbelt Poetry Festival.

“She just don’t know. She just ain’t never had nothing taken from her.”

Don’t miss this astonishing poem from Ajanae Dawkins, performing at the 2018 Rustbelt Poetry Festival in Detroit, MI.



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Dua Saleh – “The Romanticization of Poverty”


Performing at 7th St Entry.

“You’re beautiful. Beauty like sentiment of desirability, desire like anything other than the fear of being unfulfilled.”

Don’t miss this wonderful poem from Dua Saleh, performing at 7th St Entry in Minneapolis, MN.



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Reagan Myers – The Girl Becomes Gasoline (1M Views!)

“I don’t know when I became a space to be filled, my thigh an open lease.”

Congratulations to Reagan Myers on topping 1,000,000 views on this stunning poem! Watch more videos from Reagan here!



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Phil Kaye – “Repetition”


Featuring at Honey.

“You watch the sunset too often it just becomes 6pm. You make the same mistake over & over you’ll stop calling it a mistake. If you just wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up one day you’ll forget why.”

Don’t miss this exquisite poem from Phil Kaye, featuring at Honey in Minneapolis. Don’t miss Phil’s debut book, DATE & TIME, now available!


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Rachel Wiley – “But They Say I Will Not Make It”


Featuring at Icehouse.

“When you are fat (and I am fat) the streets are full of soothsayers telling you how you will die.”

Don’t miss this amazing poem from Rachel Wiley, featuring at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.


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Best of Button Week 186

“Last week, I was informed that when Black people die and go to heaven, they go through this purification process, and God will turn them white, like everybody else in heaven.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Jahman Hill, & Ollie Schminkey! Congrats poets!

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