Performed at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

“Months from now, I hope you stumble across the picture, and are ambushed by your own radiance.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN

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““Love arrives exactly when love is supposed to, and love leaves exactly when love must.”

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Performed

“We are blurry silhouettes against the backdrop of everything popular, often wearing our skin like a costume of someone we didn’t feel comfortable pretending to be anyways.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing

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“Don’t we all need a little editing? Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying they will tell us that we make sense?”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Sarah Kay, Diamond Mason, Darius Simpson, Scout Bostley, Rudy Francisco, and Sierra DeMulder! Congrats Poets!

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“How could I not fall in love with my illness?”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Blythe Baird, Phil Kaye, Andrea Gibson, Sabrina Benaim ! Congrats Poets!

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Performed his poem “So my grandmother once told me…”

“Don’t we all need a little editing? Aren’t we all waiting to be read by someone, praying they will tell us that we make sense?”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing his poem “So my grandmother once told me…”

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Performed by Rudy Francisco

“We learn that the heart is the same size as the fist, but we keep forgetting they don’t have the same functions.”

Don’t miss this poem from Rudy Francisco, performing by Rudy Francisco

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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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“Your job is not just to look up and imagine, your job is to look down and laugh. Your job is not just to understand flight. It’s to fly.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Ebony Stewart, Kyle ‘Guante’ Tran Myhre, Steven Willis, and Edwin Bodney! Congrats Poets!

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“No named land will grow my brand of briar so now i belong to both culprit and casualty.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Zach Goldberg, Erica Abbott, Rudy Francisco, and Sarah Kay! Congrats Poets!

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