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Chelsea Coreen - “Fart”
“But how @%^# up are our standards of beauty, or gender constructs… that we make little girls hold in their farts until no one is around to smell them”
“When I used to visit my grandmother in the hospital she would make me apply her red lipstick for her - she said she couldn’t be seen without it.”
Chelsea Coreen, of SUNY Oneonta, performing during Semi-FInals at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Antoine Duke - “Black Picket Fences”
“I always thought those burning crosses you left were your love letters to us…”
Antoine Duke, of Minneapolis Community and Technical College, performing as part of the “Best of the Rest” on Finals stage at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Elliot Darrow - “God is Gay” (CUPSI 2013 Finals)
“Keep in mind, Jesus had two dads and turned out just fine.”
Performing for UNC Chapel Hill during the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Anny Miner - “Wicked Women”
“Yes, I still accepted the boy’s fists as if each were a rose and I was a garden in need of some color.”
Anny Miner, performing for SUNY Oneonta at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
Dylan Garity - “Friend Zone”
“The problem is, when I started thinking of myself as a savior, I ended up thinking of myself as a savior with a salary.”
A first reading, from the Saint Paul Soap Boxing Grand Slam on May 6!
Thressa Johnson - “Start Seeing Livers”
“You are not a jigsaw; you are an oil painting.”
Thressa Johnson, of Hamline University, performing at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational.
HIEU NGUYEN - “It Was The Winter…”
“Nostalgia forgets to visit this street. It is too busy with tree houses and rope swings; it doesn’t have time for all this grey.”
Button Poetry’s own HIEU NGUYEN is a finalist in the 2013 Write Bloody Publishing Contest. Reblog (and like this video on youtube) to help Hieu win a publishing deal!
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Emi Mahmoud - “People Like Us”
“The worst thing about genocide isn’t the hunger, the murder, the politics, the government-paid soldiers that chase you across borders and into camps - it’s the silence.”
Emi Mahmoud, performing for Yale University at the 2013 College University Poetry Slam Invitational.
Lily Myers - “Shrinking Women” (CUPSI 2013)
“As she shrinks, the space around her seems increasingly vast.”
Lily Myers, of Wesleyan University, performing at the 2013 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. This piece was awarded Best Love Poem in the tournament.
