Button Poetry
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“Awestruck [Verb]” by Andrea Gibson
“Awestruck [Verb]”1. to quit building bomb shelters to keep the universe from blowing your mind. Gibson, Andrea. “Awestruck [Verb].” Lord of the Butterflies. Button Poetry, 2018, p.43. Continue reading
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from “What Sex Becomes” by Olivia Gatwood
from: “What Sex Becomes”I felt like a school teacherwho goes home to no children,a cab driver without a car,a therapist who criesin the middle of the nightand can’t figure out why. Gatwood, Olivia. “What Sex Becomes.” New American Best Friend. Button Poetry, 2017, p. 35. Continue reading
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from “Gentrification”
by Junious ‘Jay’ Ward from Button Poetry picture a house, single-story 3 adults 2 children, 700 square feet shotgun style meaning if you open the front door in the back door a bullet would go right through the house without touching anything except here the bullet is a minimum-wage paycheck the bullet says to the Continue reading
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“When They Look Right Through You” by Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre
A friend of mine read Not a Lot of Reasons to Sing, But Enough by Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre, and it reminded how much I love his work. I’ve used his poem “Consent at 10,000 Feet” to celebrate National Poetry Month 2020, the year I decided to embark on this endeavor. All roads led back Continue reading
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“I’m Sorry I Thought You Were Your Mother (after Ocean Vuong)” by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
I love poem titles with the parenthetical after following them. These poems are little doorways to other poems and poets. And sometimes those lead to more discovery. “I’m Sorry I Thought You Were Your Mother” is found in Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s peluda, published by Button Poetry. Continue reading
Chapin City Blues 