Join us for a poetry reading/fundraiser featuring Rudy Francisco, Rachel Wiley, Neil Hilborn, Sabrina Benaim, Zach Goldberg, Ollie Schminkey, Kyle Tran Myhre, Andrea Gibson (via video recording) and TaneshaNicole! Live via zoom, August 7, 2024, 7pm Central. Register here.

That’s quite a lineup (especially if you grew up watching Button Poetry videos), and it’s for something important:

We’re raising money for our friend TaneshaNicole, whose life was changed drastically by a serious diagnosis earlier this year. Tanesha has put so much love and energy into both our Twin Cities community and the broader poetry community; let’s give some of that love and energy back. The event itself is free, but we are asking everyone to donate what you can, and/or share the link with your network.

The line, “Bless Every Place I Have Learned to Reinvent the Way I Love Myself,” is from one of Tanesha’s poems: