“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: Zach Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Mica Rich, Clint Smith, and Sarah Kay! Congrats Poets!

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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“You will know his presence like a miracle in reverse.”

Don’t miss this poem from Zach Goldberg, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“We’re all transplants, all absent from our parent’s kitchen and mother tongue”

Don’t miss this poem from Zach Goldberg, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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As a boy, my father once trained a crow to return nightly to the porch. I tried to train my memory the same way.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Ollie Schminkey, Rudy Francisco, Makinsey Jones, Zach Goldberg, Clint Smith, Meaghan Ford, and Usman Hameedi! Congrats Poets!

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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“Liquor too can become a consecration, so it became the way I practiced.”

Don’t miss this poem from Zach Goldberg, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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“I once held on to a grudge for so long, I forgot how the conflict actually started.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Zach Goldberg, Lyrical Faith, Blacqwildflowr, Michael Lee, and Doc Luben! Congrats Poets!

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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“It’s easy to think that ‘having an addictive personality’ means no one can get enough of you. Then, you grow up and your poetry professor tells you to stop writing poems about whiskey.”

Don’t miss this poem from Zach Goldberg, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“My inheritance is a bundle of EKG wires, the strange arrhythmic heart song sung by my father and his father before him. This is what it feels like to drown in your family’s ocean.”

Don’t miss this poem from Zach Goldberg, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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“Maybe love stays, maybe love can’t. Maybe love shouldn’t.”

Don’t miss this week’s Best of Button playlist. Today’s additions: Rudy Francisco, Ollie Schminkey, John Lotti, and Zach Goldberg! Congrats Poets!

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Performed at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

“Anything can be an addiction, because if I swallowed it and finished it, and it didn’t kill me, it must be the first thing worth remembering.”

Don’t miss this poem from Zach Goldberg, performing at the Strike Theater in Minneapolis, MN

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