Minneapolis poet Thadra Sheridan gives a wonderful performance in this amazing short film from Button Poetry.
Button Poetry “seek[s] to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry’s audience, to expand its reach and develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form.”
As per her website,
THADRA SHERIDAN is a poet, essayist, columnist, teacher, and performer from Minneapolis, MN. She has been published in the Star and Tribune, the Skyway News, Moxie Magazine, Rattle, and several anthologies. She has won awards for her writing from the Faulkner Society and the National League of American Pen Women. Her work has been featured on the final episode of HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, Minnesota Public Radio, and venues across the country, including San Quentin Penitentiary, where she scored serious points talking about her terrible taste in men. She has been a member of four National Poetry Slam Teams, three from Minneapolis, and one from San Francisco, which placed 6th at the 2005 National Poetry Slam. She featured at ForWord Girls, the first ever all-female spoken word festival in San Francisco and won LA’s first all-female Redhots Slam. She was the recent recipient of the Jerome Foundation’s Verve grant for spoken word. If it has hurt, she will find a way to laugh at it. She is snarky, clever as hell, and a little bit evil. She charges for pity, and she’s sick of waiting tables.
In this clip, a customer tries his very best to make his waitress miserable, but she has something else in mind for him – a piece of her mind!
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