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!

Come back each week to see our newest and most popular videos.

While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, or check out our newest release from Matt Coonan!

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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

While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Rudy Francisco, Rachel Wiley, Dave Harris, Porsha Olayiwola, Ebony Stewart, Andrea Gibson, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!

Benaim & Lee Dual Bookiversary Sale

It’s the 5-Year Bookiversary of Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim

AND the 3-Year Bookiversary of The Only Worlds We Know by Michael Lee!

We have LIMITED signed copies of each book, as well as $10 paperbacks, eBooks, & audiobooks!

Don’t miss a chance to collect these items for yourself or gift to a friend! SALE ENDS 8.14.22.

While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Rudy Francisco, Rachel Wiley, Dave Harris, Porsha Olayiwola, Ebony Stewart, Andrea Gibson, and our newest release from Topaz Winters!

Sabrina Benaim – “Hurdles / Dreams” (100K Views!)

“There is no sleep for this lonely.”

Congratulations to Sabrina Benaim for topping 100,000 views on this incredible poem! Watch more from Button Poetry Live here and here.

Check out the 2021 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest! Open November 15, 2021 – 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 George Abraham, Dave Harris, Jared Singer, Rachel Wiley, Raych Jackson, and our newest release from Andrea Gibson!

Best of Button Week 334

“I don’t realize dinner with you now is much much easier than it will be in the future.”

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

While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Andrea Gibson, Omar Holmon, Neil Hilborn, Porsha Olayiwola, Azura Tyabji & Jackson Neal, Blythe Baird, Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie, and our newest release from Reagan Myers!

Sabrina Benaim – “There’s No Way to Say I’m Sorry if You Aren’t”

Performing at Amsterdam Bar and Hall.

“I don’t realize dinner with you now is much much easier than it will be in the future.”

Don’t miss this wonderful poem from Sabrina Benaim, performing at Amsterdam Bar and Hall in St. Paul, MN.

Sabrina’s highly acclaimed debut book, DEPRESSION & OTHER MAGIC TRICKS, is now available to order! Get your copy now!

While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by George Abraham, Neil Hilborn, Michael Lee, Blythe Baird, Raych Jackson, and our newest releases from Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie & Reagan Myers!

Sabrina Benaim – “How to Unfold a Memory” (500K Views!)

“Love, that great & terrible handsome beast, trace me back to it by a trail of smoke.”

Congratulations to Sabrina Benaim for topping 500,000 views on this compelling poem! Watch more from Sabrina here and here.

Sabrina’s incredible debut book, Depression & Other Magic Tricks is now available!

While you’re here, head over to the Button store to check out our books and merch, including books by Sabrina Benaim, Neil Hilborn, Michael Lee, Blythe Baird, Raych Jackson, & our newest releases from Rudy Francisco & Kevin Kantor!

Sabrina Benaim – “The Truth Has Three Sides” (100K Views!)

“I miss you, but I don’t wish you were here.”

Congratulations to Sabrina Benaim on topping 100,000 views on this heart-wrenching poem! Watch more videos from Sabrina here and 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, Andrea Gibson, Blythe Baird, Desireé Dallagiacomo, Dave Harris, & our newest release from Michael Lee!