Dec 23, 2017
We had come to the brink of something beautiful but fell short so many times we crafted a word for it.
Bianca Phipps - “Almosts” (CUPSI 2014)
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We had come to the brink of something beautiful but fell short so many times we crafted a word for it.
Bianca Phipps - “Almosts” (CUPSI 2014)
The statue suffragettes tower over my frame, daring me to stretch to their level.
FROM THE VAULT! Anna Binkovitz - "Suffragette 69" (CUPSI 2014)
Anna Binkovitz, performing for Macalester College during semifinals at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. HELP SUPPORT BUTTON POETRY.
And both of them see the Asian face peering out of a corner of a jaundiced skin and burnt hair.
FROM THE VAULT! Sam Lai - "The Difference" (CUPSI 2014)
Sam Lai, performing for Washington University during semifinals at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Help bring Button to you.
I’ve been trying to write this letter for six months. I still can’t decide if it should be an apology or not.
FROM THE VAULT: Ethan Smith - "A Letter to the Girl I Used to Be" (CUPSI 2014)
Ethan Smith, performing during finals at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Want captions on all videos? Multilingual subtitles? A nationwide Button tour? Check us out on Patreon!
My mother is a mirror I broke.
FROM THE VAULT: Alice Frederick - "Mirrors" (CUPSI 2014)
Alice Frederick, performing for Princeton during semifinals at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Become a member! Support Button Poetry.
We forgot crowns do nothing for kings but put weight on their heads and a target on their backs.
FROM THE VAULT: Loyce Gayo - "How We Forget" (CUPSI 2014)
Loyce Gayo, performing for UT Austin during finals at the 2014 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Help us make Button Poetry more accessible!
I’m still learning what it means to be honest, how to speak of the multitude inside me without feeling like I’m falling apart. How to exist without doubting if I’m allowed to. How to choose myself, even when all I am is sad music and anxious bones. I will practice saying ‘No’, rehearse self-worth until it is instinct. I will spend the rest of my life unlocking the chamber in my throat and measure each note out of the stillness… and compose.
“Invisible” by Ariana Brown and Arati Warrier at CUPSI 2014
The end is not coming, the end is not fiction. The end is here.