Performed at IWPS 2015
“The verbal diaspora of Africa shapes my spine, we cross our Ts like the middle passage, dot our Is with strange fruit, curve our Ss with Mid-Atlantic roots.”
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Performed at IWPS 2015
“Did you forget that we are children of God, Dylann? And who doesn’t love unexpected trips home?”
Don’t miss this poem from Steven Willis, performing at IWPS 2015
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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.”
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“We could no longer be threatened into submission or be stared into repentance. Their hope was that as we feared them less, we would fear God more.”
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Performed at the Button Studio
“We could no longer be threatened into submission or be stared into repentance. Their hope was that as we feared them less, we would fear God more.”
Don’t miss this amazing poem from Steven Willis, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN
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Performing at the Button Studio
“I supply everything, even the pipe dreams. That’s why ballplayers pass the ‘rock’ and the rappers ‘cook it up’ in the lab. I’m the ‘base’line in that jazz, the ‘rock’ in their roll and I’m always in the background when shit goes up in ‘smoke.’”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Steven Willis, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN
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Performing at the Button Studio
“Somewhere a Black Capitalist lies to himself. Says he is his ancestors’ wildest dreams cause he got a four-wheel drive and a house as big as the oppressors’.”
Don’t miss this powerful poem from Steven Willis, performing at the Button Studio in Minneapolis, MN
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Performing at the Button Studio
“It is here that it becomes obvious the priceless thing you read about as a child, saw in movies, heard about in song, up close is small. Demure. Simple. Of course it deserves to be protected.”
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Performed by Steven Willis
“Funny how bullets stray like dogs whenever I disobey a cop’s command and now Fox News asks my momma all the doggone questions like, ‘Why didn’t I sit? Why didn’t I stay? Why wasn’t I a good boy?’”
Don’t miss this incredible poem from Steven Willis, performing at the Button Studio.
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“Instead of a Suicide Note, I Wrote This”
Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist, featuring the top-viewed recent videos on the Button YouTube Channel. Today’s addition: Steven Willis! Congrats Poet!
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