Program Description
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ROPL is hosting author Brittany Rogers as she tours Michigan as a 2025 Michigan Notable Book Author!
"In her debut poetry collection, Brittany Rogers explores the audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, class, luxury, materialism, and matrilineage. A nontraditional coming of age, Good Dress witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, reflecting on formative experiences. With care and incandescent energy, the poems engage with memory, time, interiority, and community. The collection also nudges tenderly toward curiosity: What does it mean to belong to a person, to a city? Can intimacy and romance be found outside the heteronormative confines of partnership? And in what ways can the pursuit of pleasure be an anchor that returns us to ourselves?"
Copies of Good Dress will be available for purchase during this event by Sidetrack Books!
Refreshments will be served.
Learn about Michigan Notable books HERE.
About Brittany Rogers: Brittany Rogers is poet, visual artist, educator, and life-long Detroiter. She has work published or forthcoming in Lit Hub, The Hopkins Review, Scalawag, The Poet Lore, Indiana Review, Four Way Review, Underbelly, Mississippi Review, Lambda Literary, and Oprah Daily. Brittany is a fellow of VONA, The Watering Hole, Poetry Incubator, and Pink Door Writing Retreat. Brittany is Editor-in-Chief of Muzzle Magazine and co-host of VS Podcast. She is the author of the poetry collection Good Dress, a Michigan Notable Book for 2025, and finalist for the NAACP Image Award. (Tin House, 2024).
Sponsors: This event is brought to Royal Oak through a partnership with the Library of Michigan Foundation, Michigan Humanities, the Michigan Department of Education, and Sidetrack Books.
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Registration is required for this program. If you are more than 10 minutes late, your reservation will be cancelled and offered to others who are waiting.