Button Poetry

Button Poetry Promoting and producing spoken word poetry since 2011. We seek to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community.
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By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry’s audience, to expand its reach and develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form.

06/05/2026

"Once I was a child who never felt complete about holding anything until it was broken."

- AARON from Stunt Water by Buddy Wakefield

One last chance at submitting to our First Book Contest because it officially closes on MONDAY! Gather your previously u...
06/05/2026

One last chance at submitting to our First Book Contest because it officially closes on MONDAY! Gather your previously unpublished manuscript and $25 per entry for your chance at publication! We can't wait to read what you have✍️

Submit today with this link: https://buttonpoetry.com/first-book-contest/

Get Buddy Wakefield's A Choir of Honest Killers today to experience your own miracle!
06/05/2026

Get Buddy Wakefield's A Choir of Honest Killers today to experience your own miracle!

Absorb what you can from A Choir of Honest Killers by Buddy Wakefield
06/04/2026

Absorb what you can from A Choir of Honest Killers by Buddy Wakefield

While I'm not writing a sestina today, I am writing to alert you to the fact that Ollie Schminkey's DON'T BE AFRAID TO B...
06/04/2026

While I'm not writing a sestina today, I am writing to alert you to the fact that Ollie Schminkey's DON'T BE AFRAID TO BE BAD is available for purchase! 🚨

06/04/2026

Every Thursday at 12pm CST, Button Poetry features throwback episodes for our authors, celebrating their poetry throughout the years. Tune in on Thursday June 4th on Button's FaceBook, Instragram, YouTube and TikTok for Omar Holmon, where he'll read poems and talk about his poetry at Button Poetry Live in Saint Paul, MN.

06/04/2026

"There are many days I thirst for my own silence but walk through the desert screaming instead."
From Q***r Youth Are Five Times More Likely to Die by Su***de by Andrea Gibson () performing at the mobile Button Poetry Studio in Longmont, Colorado.

06/04/2026

"Watch flesh and blood fly until we call for the extinction of men who put their hands where they shouldn’t and don’t take no for an answer."

- Gigi Bella performing Dinosaur

06/03/2026

"It's sweeter to have a song on her head than the beeping monitors."
- Adrienne Novy performing Julien Baker and I Visit My Mom in the ICU via Poetry Tag Livestream

06/03/2026

Let’s write a sonnet!

The rules of a sonnet:
1. 14 lines
2. 10 syllables in each line (some contemporary poets even opt out of this)
3. (Optional rhyme scheme, stanza breakdown, etc. if you want to get fancy with it)
You can write about whatever you want, but if you’d like an area of exploration, write about a time something didn’t happen.

Have fun, and don’t be afraid to be bad!

- Poetry Prompt from DON’T BE AFRAID TO BE BAD by Ollie Schminkey

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