Button Poetry@buttonpoetry

Provider of Spoken Word, Performance, & Slam Poetry Media.

 Minneapolis, MN
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Joined April 2011
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GUILT DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE by Blythe Baird, from her book Sweet, Young, & Worried.
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Bi's Poetica by PAGES Matam, from their book Living at Baggage Claim.
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MY TOWN INTRO by @Buddywakefield, from his book Stunt Water. "I’m gonna keep you awake some nights without touching you. You’ll make it up, the pain. You always do."
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¿cómo se dice swiftie? by Gigi Bella, from her book without the frills. "i don’t agree with the idea that joy is solely caucasian. that love and loss and bravery and stories are either."
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ode to luis in ant man & the wasp by Gigi Bella, from her book without the frills.
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WORCESTER, MA CHRISTMAS 2003 by Rachel Camacho, from her book Pink Elephant. "When I broke the news to your mother, I could hear each word crash against her face like a frying pan. She was quiet for too long. Then she asked, 'But did you actually see him do it?'…"
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The Information Man by Buddy Wakefield, from his book Stunt Water.
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the cult leader invites you in by @alyssa.m.acevedo, from her book My Dear Cult Leader. "as a child, i was a wallflower, broken & confused just like you. i understand you more than your family."
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CARDINAL by Rachel Camacho, from her book Pink Elephant.
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somewhere, yes by Aly Acevedo, from her book My Dear Cult Leader.
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LOSING DANNY OLIVER by @buddywakefield, from his book A Choir of Honest Killers. "I was nosedive, an unreliable narrator in an echo chamber. Speculation megaphone. Dying to distill the anger and hear what was left."
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on listening to High and Dry by Radiohead in my psychiatrist's waiting room by Adrienne Novy, from her book good luck in the real world.
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love is blind by @poetnextdoor, from her book unreliable narrator. "i have never known a love that did not require me to pluck my eyes from their sockets a jagged rock that did not pose itself as soft landing"
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Promt From Generation Curce Retold by Ollie Schminkey, from their book DON’T BE AFRAID TO BE BAD.
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Transplant by Francis Dylan Waguespack, from his book Tooth Gaps in the Archives. "My accent thins. Phone calls home bring it rushing back, vowels stretching like Roman candy. I speak two languages: then and now."
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10:33 OUTSIDE YOUR LOCAL PRECINCT by Darius Simpson, from his book Never Catch Me.
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Amazing by @NeSP3, from his book Roads. "Sometimes I feel the motion of the planet like riding a train when the wheels hit a shake in the tracks."
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I Take My Midwestern Penpal to a Gay Bar by Carson Wolfe, from their book Coin Laundry at Midnight.
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THEY// HE by PAGES Matam, from their book Living at Baggage Claim. "let the church say // a "man"? in the name of queerness dressed in //a craving"
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THE LIKELY SALOON by Buddy Wakefield, from his book A Choir of Honest Killers.
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