Trey Amos – “Short Story Long”


2016 Button Poetry Video Contest.
“Do you ever give second thought to breathing?”
Don’t miss this great poem from Trey Amos, featured contestant in the 2016 Button Poetry Video Contest. Join our mailing list and get notified for our next submission period!
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Elizabeth Acevedo – “An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood” (100K Views!)

“You don’t know my god. You and mine ain’t on speaking terms.”

Congratulations to Elizabeth on topping 100,000 views on this fantastic poem. Watch more from Elizabeth here and here.



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Juan Camillo Garza – “5000 Michael Jordans”

2016 Button Poetry Video Contest.

“The doorbell rings, the mailman is at the front and he’s carrying every love letter that every stranger has ever written for you.”

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Poet Jen Harris – “For All Parents”

2016 Button Poetry Video Contest.

“Now that your child has come out to you, free to choose to live anyway they feel right to, you’re not allowed to resign.”

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Justin Lamb – “Hermit”

2016 Button Poetry Video Contest.

“I want you to be happy. I also want me to be happy. And you falling in love with a hermit feels like a fair compromise.”

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Safia Elhillo – “Application for the Position of Abdelhalim Hafez’s Girl” (Motionpoems)

A poetry film by Motionpoems.

“I go quiet for days. I turn the color of mirrors. I turn the color of smoke.”

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Ed Carlyon – “It’s OK”

2016 Button Poetry Video Contest.

“My armpit hair is uneven and I feel like something is wrong with my nipples but I don’t know what.”

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