Sean Patrick Mulroy – Pyro

Performed at IWPS 2015

“The truth is scarier than any allegory. Lover, there is something inside you that burns down everything you love.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing at IWPS 2015

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Sean Patrick Mulroy – There is No Cure for Trauma

Performed in NYC

“Everybody has a lover who loves them just like a clock being thrown from a moving car.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC

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Sean Patrick Mulroy – Sestina for the Murdered Girl

Performed in NYC

“Thirty days of flyers. Thirty days of prayer and deli platters. Thirty days of missing. Thirty days, and dead the whole time.”

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Sean Patrick Mulroy – барские шалости

Performed in NYC

“It seems our stories always end this way, but then again it seems we never have the chance to write them.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC

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Best of Button – Week 36

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

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Ollie Schminkey, Alex Dang, Edwin Bodney, Rudy Francisco, and Sean Patrick Mulroy! Congrats Poets!

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Sean Patrick Mulroy – villanelle for the wound

Performed in NYC

“We men who love men’s bodies know this mouth, its whispered menace.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC

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Sean Patrick Mulroy – For your consideration

Performed in NYC

“Look how hard I am choosing not to die today.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC

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Sean Patrick Mulroy – the evidence speaks for itself (Genji Monogatari, 1008 CE)

Performed in NYC

“The first protagonist in all recorded literary history, a man, makes love to men, and hey, guess what? He doesn’t die.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC

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Sean Patrick Mulroy – white phosphorus

Performed in NYC

“Exposing only white roses of bone or else it waits there, underneath the skin, to bloom again.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC

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Sean Patrick Mulroy – sex dream in which Tu’er Shen’s a no-show

Performed in NYC

“You never realized until now how much all your friends talk about love.”

Don’t miss this poem from Sean Patrick Mulroy, performing in NYC

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