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Aziza Barnes - "Aunt Jemima" #SpokenWord #Poetry #ButtonPoetry @ButtonPoetry http://fucmedia.com/aziza-barnes-aunt-jemima-spokenword-poetry-buttonpoetry-buttonpoetry/

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Want to get your poems published (and filmed!) by Button? Our third annual chapbook contest is about to start! Open submissions from July 15 - August 15. Winner receives a $250 cash prize, 50 author copies, and roundtrip travel to Minneapolis for a book release show filmed by Button! Check out our announcement video, and head to our website for more information. Contest is open to all ages and nationalities.

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Button Poetry and Exploding Pinecone Press are delighted to announce J. SCOTT BROWNLEE as the winner of our 2013 chapbook competition, judged by Rachel McKibbens. Brownlee’s chapbook, Highway or Belief, will be published this winter. 

Stay tuned for more from Brownlee, and to find out the rest of our winter chapbook catalog.

J. SCOTT BROWNLEE is a Writers in the Public Schools Fellow at NYU, where he teaches poetry to undergraduates and fifth graders through the Teachers & Writers Collaborative.  His work has appeared in Hayden’s Ferry Review, RATTLE, Beloit Poetry Journal, Nashville Review, Ninth Letter, BOXCAR Poetry Review, The Greensboro Review, Devil's Lake, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and elsewhere.  A Pushcart nominated poet-of-place, Brownlee writes primarily about the people and landscape of rural Texas and is a founding member of The Localists, a new literary movement that emphasizes place-based writing of personal witness, cultural memory, and the aesthetically marginalized working-class, both in the United States and abroad.  His book-length work, Disappearing Town, was named a finalist for the 2013 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award.  He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Aziza Barnes - "Aziza meets Charlie Parker in an unspecified bar on 52nd Street"  "a name is one of many small borrowings and she wanted to own something that day"

Button/Exploding Pinecone Press will be announcing the finalists for the summer 2013 chapbook contest THIS WEEK!!! To get you pumped and ready, here's a video from last year's winner, Aziza Barnes. 

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Chapbook Contest

Button's been busy filming at the Rustbelt Regional Slam all weekend, and we can't wait to share some of the excellent video we took. In the meantime, check out the Exploding Pinecone Chapbook Contest, which is now open for submission!

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Hey folks! We're super excited to announce the new Button Poetry website! Check it out for full information on the Exploding Pinecone Chapbook Contest, and much more!