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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“Every Thursday, I go to couples therapy with my depression. He whispers in my ear to stay in bed for another day, presses his palm into my chest, afraid I’m going to escape the covers.”

Congratulations to Patrick Roche on topping 500,000 views on this powerful poem! Watch more videos from Patrick here and here!



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Featuring at Button Poetry Live.

“This has always been a matter of equity, right? So how about we become equally unequal. No lives matter.”

Don’t miss this incredible poem from Kofi Dadzie, featuring at Button Poetry Live.

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“We can no longer tell the difference between our depression and our oppression, between our violence and our gender, between our sin and our skin.”
 
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Alok Vaid-Menon, Mya Rigoli, Desireé Dallagiacomo, & Blythe Baird! Congrats poets!
 
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Hanif Abdurraqib, Donte Collins, Neil Hilborn, Andrea Gibson, & our newest release from Blythe Baird!

Featuring at Button Poetry Live.

“If people will not buy a song, must be because of patriarchy.”

Don’t miss this amazing poem from Franny Choi, featuring at Button Poetry Live.

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