“A weapon will always be a weapon, but we choose how we fight the war.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Rachel Wiley, Sierra DeMulder, Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, and Sabrina Beniam! Congrats Poets!
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“I say, ‘I am fat.’ He says, ‘no, you’re beautiful.’ I wonder why I cannot be both.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Sierra DeMulder, Rachel Wiley, Ollie Schminkey, Darius Simpson, Sabrina Benaim, Hanif Abdurraqib, Arianna Monet, Rudy Francisco, and Maggie Smith! Congrats Poets!
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“But to tell me you know my pain is to stab yourself in the leg because you saw me get shot. We have two different wounds, and looking at yours does nothing to heal mine.”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Darius Simpson, Scout Bostley, Rachel Wiley, Ollie Schminkey, Keyma Flight, Sierra DeMulder, and Tess Siegel! Congrats Poets!
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Choose from the 2023 line-up of authors below.
Desireé Dallagiacomo – Who We Are & Who We Come From
Sabrina Benaim – Feels Tripping
Sean Patrick Mulroy – Advanced Poetics for Queer Voices
Siaara Freeman – Series(ly) Speaking: The Alchemy of Turning One Idea Into Many
Rachel Wiley – One Poem Six Ways
Patrick Roche – Reclaiming and Reframing Your Narrative
Topaz Winters – Won’t You Celebrate With Me: The Power of Joy in Poetry
Blythe Baird – How To Bring Your Poetry to the Stage
Stevie Edwards – (Re)Writing the Politicized Body
Junious ‘Jay’ Ward – Such A Vivrant Thing!
Ollie Schminkey – Odes and Elegies: Form Poems for This Century
Rudy Francisco – Getting Stitches
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Performing at Icehouse
“Let us wake up tomorrow to a bountiful harvest. It is said, so it is so.”
Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Rachel Wiley, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
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Submit a cover of your favorite poem to our 2021 Button Poetry Cover Contest! Open NOW – May 16, 2022. More info and full guidelines here!
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Performing at Icehouse
“I call my mother to ask who one contacts to collect no one’s dead dog. She says that the dead dogs she has handled have all been her own.”
Don’t miss this great poem from Rachel Wiley, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
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Performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“And like a punch to the side of the head, there she is. Everything I have worked my entire fat life not to be, embodied on screen.”
Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Rachel Wiley, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
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Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN
“Water might be the only thing that could ever hold us gentle.”
Don’t miss this fantastic poem from Rachel Wiley, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
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Performing at Icehouse
“One of these days we’ll scrape enough gas money from the floor mats to run away, someplace where we don’t have to wear this skin like bark. Someplace where we will not spend any more years piling on scabs.”
Don’t miss this great poem from Rachel Wiley, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
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Check out the 2021 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest! Open NOW – January 10, 2022. More info and full guidelines here!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Dave Harris, Michael Lee, Blythe Baird, Raych Jackson, and our newest release from Andrea Gibson!
Performing at Icehouse
“The fucks I give about what anyone thinks of my terrifying body are all stored in my belly button. Notice how it is an empty bowl waiting to be filled.”
Don’t miss this incredible poem from Rachel Wiley, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
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Check out the 2021 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest! Open NOW – January 10, 2022. More info and full guidelines here!
While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Dave Harris, Michael Lee, Blythe Baird, Raych Jackson, and our newest release from Andrea Gibson!
