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“Following the tradition of Nikky Finney, Krista Franklin, and Morgan Parker, Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty of Black relationships, language, and community.”

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“Good Dress knows Detroit and all its migrations: the East Sidedness of its own language; its Down South tell-it-like-it-is because I love you and mean it.” - Aricka Foreman

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(Photo credits: Lunar Haus, Brittany Greeson & Stephanie Hill.)

BRITTANY ROGERS

Brittany Rogers is a poet, visual artist, essayist, high school teacher, and lifelong Detroiter. Audacity is the overarching concept that activates her creative process; as a Black queer femme, Brittany is fascinated by the boldness and risk taking that daily survival necessitates. As such, her explorations of audacity often lead to an interrogation of the connections between the audacity of Black women and pleasure, longing, autonomy, the erotic, adornment, coming of age, and matrilineage. 

As a whole, Brittany’s creative work pokes at the notions of respectability, ownership, beauty, and obligation, and is constantly looking to subvert the heteronormative and patriarchal expectations that are placed upon Black femmes. She has work published or forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Apogee, Indiana Review, Four Way Review, Underbelly,Mississippi Review, The Metro Times, “The BreakBeat Poets: Black Girl Magic”, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora,Lambda Literary, and Oprah Daily.She is Editor-In-Chief of Muzzle Magazine and co-host of VS Podcast. Her debut collection, Good Dress, is forthcoming from Tin House Press this fall.

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Accepting bookings for readings, workshops, curriculum building regarding ELA, literacy, Black womanhood, matrilineal structures, parenting & more!

NOW BOOKING FOR THE GOOD DRESS TOUR DATES OCTOBER 2024 - SEPTEMBER 2025

 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Lambda Literary: “I’m Feelin Myself: Review Of Feelin’: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought” (2023)

Four Way Review: “Detroit Pastoral” (2023)

Apogee: “On Beauty and Surveillance: A Review of Concentrate by Courtney Faye Taylor” (2023)

Oprah Daily: “A High School Teacher Falls for the Truths in the Fictional World of Abbott Elementary” (2022)

Underbelly Magazine: “Ice Cam, Little Ceasar’s Arena” (2022)

Room Object Anthology: “Self Portrait as K and G Deli on Warren and Conner” & “Legacy” (2021)

ArtLit Lab: Poetry Month Series: Black Girl Sips Tea With Nina Simone (2021)

Poetry Daily: “Pantoum for Postpartum” (2021)

Mississippi Review: Finalist in the Mississippi Review Contest: “Money” (2021)

Best of the Net Anthology: “Pantoum for Postpartum” (2021)

Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora Journal: Sestina for the Sex Talk (2021)

The Offing: “After Session Homework;” “Diagnosis” (2020)

Voicemail Poems: “The Year Caught Out There became My Theme Song” (2019)

Tinderbox, Semi-finalist for Brett Jenkins Award, “Pantoum for Postpartum” (2019)

The Break Beat Anthology: Black Girl Magic, VL.2: My Daughter Prays for a Brother and Gets One (2018)

Tinderbox Poetry: “In Response to Baby Girl Asking if It Hurts to Give Birth;” “Postpartum Depression Calls From a Blocked Number and I Answer” (2017) 

Vinyl Poetry and Prose: “Black Girl Sips Tea With Nina Simone” (2017)

3elements Review: “Granny Says Giving Birth” (2017)

Freezeray Poetry: “Nymphadora Tonks Leaves a Voicemail for Brittany Rogers after Seeing Her Leave the Bar with her Ex-Love;” “The Grieving Girl Dreams of Her Dead Best Friend” (2017)

Gramma Press: “Nymphadora Tonks Asks a Favor of Brittany Rogers;” “Portrait of a baby-mama—as displayed by ex-husband;” “What is a relationship goal to a family of divorced women?” (2017)

PRESS AND MEDIA