Mar 2, 2017
It’s instinctual, to butcher all I love most.
FROM THE VAULT! Nick Stanovick - "Belligerence" (CUPSI 2016)
Performing for Temple at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Temple won the tournament. Make Button Poetry grow!
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It’s instinctual, to butcher all I love most.
FROM THE VAULT! Nick Stanovick - "Belligerence" (CUPSI 2016)
Performing for Temple at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Temple won the tournament. Make Button Poetry grow!
Your virginity will no longer be a fifth grade math problem but a chapter already published, something to be revisited fondly.
FROM THE VAULT! Aaliyah Jihad - "Ode to Aaliyah's Mission to Sex Something for the First Time"
Performing for New York University at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. HELP SUPPORT BUTTON POETRY.
What was left was a brand I had never seen before, a bastardization of white and Asian, the bastard child neither parent acknowledges and wish didn’t exist.
FROM THE VAULT! Spencer Brownstein - "Off Brand" (CUPSI 2016)
Performing for Macalester College at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Want captions on all videos? Multilingual subtitles? A nationwide Button tour? Check us out on Patreon!
In locked rooms, I hold my body as sacrifice to a mirror that’s shattered in the left corner.
FROM THE VAULT! Tiauna Lewis - "Passing Ships" (CUPSI 2016)
Performing for Swarthmore at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Swarthmore placed 2nd in the tournament. Want Button Poetry to come to your city? You can help make it possible!
I could say it was like having all of your organs taken out, licked clean, then returned to their coffins.
FROM THE VAULT! Jasmine Bell - "Little Lies" (CUPSI 2016)
Performing for UT Austin at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Want Button Poetry to come to your city? You can help make it possible!
The Bank of America is not an institution that rounds up.
FROM THE VAULT! Brian Yu - "Reasons Why I Hate Student Loans" (CUPSI 2016)
Performing for UC Berkeley at the 2016 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. Want captions on all videos? Multilingual subtitles? A nationwide Button tour? Check us out on Patreon!
“It’s not that we don’t trust white people … It’s that y'all really think My Black looks better on you …” - from "Hide Your Shea Butter" by Crystal Valentine & Aaliyah Jihad
Charles Hines performs Ariana Grande Syndrome at CUPSI - College Union Poetry Slam Invitational, representing the University of Central Florida (UCF) Project...
Please watch my poem Ariana Grande Syndrome! It’s pretty good.