Best of Button – Week 7

“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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Best of Button – Week 5

“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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While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release Poetry By Chance: An Anthology of Poems Powered By Metaphor Dice edited by Taylor Mali!

Best of Button – Week 4

“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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While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release, Poetry By Chance, An Anthology of Poems Powered by Metaphor Dice!

Best of Button – Week 2

“Dear universe, I’m still standing here. I’m still loving here, in this body, with this heart.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Ebony Stewart, Rudy Francisco, Raych Jackson, Blythe Baird, and Reagan Myers! Congrats Poets!

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Best of Button Week 423

“A meal cannot be friends with a mouth, especially when it’s feeding time. It’s always feeding time.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco! Congrats Poet!

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Rudy Francisco – To the Black Donald Trump Supporters

Performed by Rudy Francisco

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

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Best of Button Week 419

“English is the shiniest hammer I own, but it’s also the only thing in my toolbox.”

“How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return? The rest remain forever trapped between worlds”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s additions: Andrea Gibson and Rudy Francisco! Congrats Poet!

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Rudy Francisco – Mama Saba asks

Performed by Rudy Francisco

“English is the shiniest hammer I own, but it’s also the only thing in my toolbox.”

Don’t miss this wonderful poem from Rudy Francisco

Get Rudy’s fantastic book, I’ll Fly Away.

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Best of Button Week 416

“They never saw me coming, but I’ll make sure they grieve when I leave.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Rudy Francisco! Congrats Poet!

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Rudy Francisco – “Drowning Fish” (250K Views!)

“Sometimes, ‘I’m fine,’ is the quickest way to say, ‘I don’t want to talk about it.’”

Congratulations to Rudy Francisco for topping 250,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Rudy here and here.

Check out the 2022 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest! Open NOW – January 9, 2023. More info and full guidelines here!

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