Button Poetry

  • Home.Girl.Hood.

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    Rings on every finger. Hood and educated AF. You’ve met her. Wearing all her feelings and responding with a side-eye or a tongue-pop. You’ve seen her. At the grocery store. In restaurants. On the subw… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Stewart, Ebony
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: February 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 1638340072
    • Language: English
  • Dead Dad Jokes

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    2022 Midwest Book Awards- Debut Poetry Finalist
    2022 Eric Hoffer Awards – Da Vinci Eye Finalist
    2022 Eric Hoffer Awards – Grand Prize Short List
    2022 Eric Hoffer Awards – Poetry Honorable Mention
    2019… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Schminkey, Ollie
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: May 25 2021
    • ISBN10: 194373593X
    • Language: English
  • A Socially Acceptable Breakdown

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    2022 Eric Hoffer Awards – Poetry Finalist

    A poetry collection pulling from the author’s personal narrative to take the reader on a journey through family, mental health, grief, pop culture, body image

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Roche, Patrick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: October 19, 2021
    • ISBN10: 1943735980
    • Language: English
  • A Peculiar People

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    2023 The Black Caucus of the American Library Association – Poetry Winner
    2022 Heartland Bookseller Awards Finalist

    A Peculiar People creates an entire microcosm within these poems. Steven Willis craf… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Willis, Steven
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: April 26 2022
    • ISBN10: 1638340234
    • Language: English
  • Birthright

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    2021 Arab American Awards – George Ellenbogen Poetry Award Winner
    2021 Lambda Literary Awards – Bisexual Poetry Finalist
    2020 Big Other Awards – Poetry Winner
    2020 Big Other Awards – Readers’ Choice F… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Abraham, George
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: April 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 1943735670
    • Language: English
  • Composition

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    In his debut full length collection, Junious ‘Jay’ Ward dives deep into the formation of self. Composition interrogates the historical perceptions of Blackness and biracial identity as documented th… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Ward, Junious
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: February 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 1638340471
    • Language: English
  • Butcher

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    Butcher is a book about love & loss — about being unapologetic and transparent in grief.

    Natasha finds an unexpected solace in the kitchen after losing her best friend and brother, Marcus. Here, usi… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Miller, Natasha T.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 88
    • Publish Date: February 23 2021
    • ISBN10: 1943735905
    • Language: English
  • Rock Stars

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    Witty, nostalgic, rhythmic and forlorn, Matt Mason’s poetry calls on the classic rock music that shaped him. Mason laments on his childhood in the 80s and addresses the graduating preschool class of 2… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Mason, Matt
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 136
    • Publish Date: September 05 2023
    • ISBN10: 163834065X
    • Language: English
  • Revenge Body

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    2023 Stonewall Book Award – Barbara Gittings Literature Award for Poetry Winner
    2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Finalist

    Revenge Body is Rachel Wiley’s third collection of poetry, full of the sharp w… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Wiley, Rachel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: January 25 2022
    • ISBN10: 1638340005
    • Language: English
  • Peluda

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    One of the most original performance poets of her generation, Melissa Lozada-Oliva has captivated crowds across the country and online with her vivid narratives. Humorous and biting, personal and comm… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Lozada-Oliva, Melissa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 60
    • Publish Date: September 26 2017
    • ISBN10: 1943735247
    • Language: English
  • Date & Time

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    2018 Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Honorable Mention Winner

    Phil Kaye’s debut collection is a stunning tribute to growing up, and all of the challenges and celebrations of the passing of ti… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Kaye, Phil
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: September 18 2018
    • ISBN10: 1943735360
    • Language: English
  • New American Best Friend

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    2017 Goodreads Choice Awards – Best Poetry Book Runner-Up

    One of the most recognizable young poets in America, Olivia Gatwood dazzles with her tribute to contemporary American womanhood in her debut b… [more below]

    • Series: E.P. Chapbooks #3
    • Author: Gatwood, Olivia
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 60
    • Publish Date: March 28 2017
    • ISBN10: 1943735107
    • Language: English
  • Not a Lot of Reasons to Sing, But Enough

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    OF WHAT FUTURE ARE THESE THE WILD, EARLY DAYS?

    An exploration of the role that artists play in resisting authoritarianism with a sci-fi twist.

    In poetry, dialogue and visual art the book follows two wa… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Tran Myhre, Kyle
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 168
    • Publish Date: March 29 2022
    • ISBN10: 1638340099
    • Language: English
  • How to Maintain Eye Contact

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    2022 Button Poetry Prize Runner-Up

    How to Maintain Eye Contact takes readers through a journey of uncertainty and what we make of it.

    Set in three sections, Robert Wood Lynn explores interior uncer… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Lynn, Robert Wood
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: January 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1638340463
    • Language: English
  • I Shimmer Sometimes, Too

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    Porsha Olayiwola’s debut poetry collection soars with the power and presence of live performance.

    These poems dip their hands into the fabric of black womanhood and revel in it. Shimmer establishes Ol… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Olayiwola, Porsha
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: October 29 2019
    • ISBN10: 194373545X
    • Language: English
  • If My Body Could Speak

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    Blythe Baird’s If My Body Could Speak is a celebration of girlhood and all of its struggles and triumphs.

    In poems that dig deep into sexuality, acceptance of the body, survival of trauma, and learnin… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Baird, Blythe
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: February 05 2019
    • ISBN10: 1943735476
    • Language: English
  • What I Learned from the Trees

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    2021 Button Poetry Short Form Poetry Contest Winner

    What I Learned from the Trees delves into the intricate relationship between humans and nature, and how these often overlooked, everyday interaction… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Bowman, L. E.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: September 21 2021
    • ISBN10: 1638340064
    • Language: English
  • Ephemera

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    If every experience lasted forever there would be nothing to immortalize in writing.

    In Sierra DeMulder’s melancholic yet hopeful poetry collection, Ephemera, she writes with the wisdom of someone who … [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Demulder, Sierra
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 80
    • Publish Date: June 06 2023
    • ISBN10: 1638340633
    • Language: English
  • Lord of the Butterflies

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    2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal Winner
    2019 Midwest Book Awards – Poetry Winner
    2019 Eric Hoffer Book Awards – Poetry Winner
    2019 Goodreads Choice Awards – Best Poetry Book Fi… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Gibson, Andrea
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 27 2018
    • ISBN10: 1943735425
    • Language: English
  • You Better Be Lightning

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    2023 Feathered Quill Book Awards Gold Medal Winner
    2022 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) Gold Medal Winner
    2022 Over the Rainbow Short List
    2021 Goodreads Choice Awards – Best Poetry Book Fina… [more below]

    • Series: Button Poetry
    • Author: Gibson, Andrea
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: November 09 2021
    • ISBN10: 1943735999
    • Language: English
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