#wowps 2016

[buttonpoetry]

Back home, no one ever talks to the bride. So I thought I’d try something new, thinking I could break tradition.

FROM THE VAULT! Emi Mahmoud - "The Bride" (WOWPS 2016)

Performing at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Emi won the tournament with co-champion Imani Cezanne. Want Button Poetry to come to your city? You can help make it possible!

[buttonpoetry]

Hatred was the only meal supplement they had that would make their sons grow as strong as the spinach they couldn’t steal from their landlord’s stores.

FROM THE VAULT! Honey Sanaa - "You Are What You Eat" (WOWPS 2016)

Performing at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Help us make Button Poetry more accessible!

[buttonpoetry]

You don’t know my God. You and mine ain’t on speaking terms.

FROM THE VAULT! Elizabeth Acevedo - "An Open Letter to the Protesters Outside the Planned Parenthood"

Performing at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Become a member! Support Button Poetry.

[buttonpoetry]

Now ain’t that shit funny? Not funny, ‘haha,’ but more like ain’t it funny how no one ever says assailants cry consent when they inhabit a body no rent.

FROM THE VAULT! Roya Marsh - "Blk Grl Puns" (WoWPS 2016)

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[buttonpoetry]

How can she say Jesus was a white man when he died the blackest way possible; with his hands up, with his mother watching.

FROM THE VAULT! Crystal Valentine - "And the News Reporter Says Jesus Is White"

Performing at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Want Button Poetry to come to your city? You can help make it possible!

[buttonpoetry]

I need to know that if they die, it is not while doing bad things, because then the are the forgotten.

FROM THE VAULT! Alyesha Wise - "Trauma" (WOWPS 2016)

Performing at the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam. Want Button Poetry to come to your city? You can help make it possible!

[buttonpoetry]

I painted over the walls, I wrote the poems, I shook your goddamn boots. Now you want out?

Jeanann Verlee - "The Mania Speaks" (WOWPS 2016)

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[buttonpoetry]

I will not mourn that justice was served to you, I will only keep demanding that the white versions of you get what you got.

FROM THE VAULT! Franny Choi - "For Peter Liang" (WoWPS 2016)

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