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Brittany Rogers @britrogers.bsky.social · May 2

Tonight!!

John Allen Taylor @johnallentaylor.bsky.social · Apr 17

If you're in Michigan in May, come see me! I'm reading with @britrogers.bsky.social & @sabadilla15.bsky.social in Ypsilanti to celebrate my new collection of poetry, To Let the Sun. Published by @uarkpress.bsky.social and selected by the amazing Patricia Smith 🧡

www.eventbrite.com/e/john-allen...

John Allen Taylor - author of To Let the Sun - a book release celebration with Saba Keramati and Brittany Rogers. Friday May 2, 2025. 7pm. Ladies Literary Club. 218 N Washington St. Ypsilanti, MI

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Brittany Rogers @britrogers.bsky.social · May 2

Ayeeeeee

Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · Apr 25

Where my @britrogers.bsky.social fans at? If anyone needed a footnote for her killer ice cam poem, here it is from last night: www.facebook.com/share/r/1AU3...

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Mitchell Nobis @mitchnobis.bsky.social · Apr 25

And a @britrogers.bsky.social poem about it in case you haven't read one before: www.underbellymag.com/issue-14-index

Issue 14 Archive — underbelly

www.underbellymag.com

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Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam.bsky.social · May 2

12/12 All City by Alex DiFrancesco, Becoming Story by Greg Sarris, Good Dress by Brittany Rogers & Love/Aggression by June Martin #DSPBposts @theworldsgreatestwriter.com, @traumbooks.bsky.social @alessandrostardust.bsky.social @sevenstories.bsky.social @tinhouse.bsky.social @britrogers.bsky.social

Book cover for All City by Alex DiFrancesco (Seven Stories Press), with the title in large all-caps handwritten font against a photo of brick apartment buildings superimposed on a photo of a face wearing large sunglasses. In a near-future New York City in which both global warming and a tremendous economic divide are making the city unlivable for many, a huge superstorm hits, leaving behind only those who had nowhere else to go and no way to get out. https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4162-all-city

Book cover for Becoming Story: A Journey Among Seasons, Places, Trees, and Ancestors by Greg Sarris (Heyday), with black ravens silhouetted against a yellow and green sky. Now in paperback: a gently powerful memoir about deepening your relationship with your homeland. https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/becoming-story-paperback/

Book cover for Good Dress: Poems by Brittany Rogers (Tin House Books), with a black woman in a black dress with red detailing holding a bouquet in front of her face, against a bright yellow background of painted wood. Brittany Rogers’s Good Dress documents the extravagant beauty and audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, community, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. https://tinhouse.com/book/good-dress/

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Brittany Rogers @britrogers.bsky.social · Apr 1

Damn, I was gonna say get it lol

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Brittany Rogers @britrogers.bsky.social · Feb 16

Thank you 🥹🥹🥹

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NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · Feb 16

I truly cannot recommend highly enough tracking down the work of @moonsatdusk.bsky.social and @britrogers.bsky.social! They're both amazing writers and wonderful souls.

Vicky MacDonald Harris @vickymharris.bsky.social · Feb 12

Day 12's poem for Black History month is I Haven’t Mastered the Mirror, by Ajanae Dawkins, who I saw read the other night at @notatawp.bsky.social. She was new to me, and blew my mind she was so good. As is this one. theoffingmag.com/micro/master...

I Haven't Mastered the Mirror - The Offing

Micro - The Offing Magazine

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Brittany Rogers @britrogers.bsky.social · Feb 15

What a kind, thoughtful review!

Christina Linsin @christinalinsin.bsky.social · Jan 31

My review of @britrogers.bsky.social Good Dress is live on South Florida Poetry Journal. If you would like to read it, here is the link:
www.southfloridapoetryjournal.com/reviews-2024...

Reviews 2024-25

SoFloPoJo Contents: Home * Essays * Interviews * Reviews * Special * Video * Visual Arts * Archives * ...

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NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is sneaking up on us, so HEY! GO RSVP FOR THIS EVENT WITH TWO AMAZING POETS AND CO-HOSTS OF THE VS PODCAST AND ALL-AROUND WONDERFUL PEOPLE, @britrogers.bsky.social and @moonsatdusk.bsky.social!!!

NAWP @notatawp.bsky.social · Jan 29

February 10th! Come join us for this amazing reading:

www.eventbrite.com/e/a-nawp-rea...

A NAWP Reading: Brittany Rogers & Ajanaé Dawkins

A night of poetry with Brittany Rogers and Ajanaé Dawkins hosted by Mitch Nobis.

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Brittany Rogers @britrogers.bsky.social · Jan 21

🥹🥹🥹 thank you!!! I can’t wait to read it 🤗

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · Dec 21

the incredible thing about this extremely viral post is that James Baldwin never said this, it was a tweet by a Twitter user called Son of Baldwin.

The disinfo war is not just against right wing political actors

Literary Pearls @literarypearls.bsky.social · Dec 20

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

James Baldwin

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Brittany Rogers @britrogers.bsky.social · Dec 19

I gotta remember to make my way over here

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Morgan Jerkins @mjerkins.bsky.social · Dec 10

From an interview I did with Nikki Giovanni back in 2017:

Nikki Giovanni describes how she doesn't think death is the end of us.

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Dr. Angel C. Dye @blkgrlpoet.bsky.social · Dec 10

It really says something that so many of us met and interacted with Nikki Giovanni at some point. She was always among the people. She loved us deeply.