Brittany Rogers (she/her)
@brittanyroger_
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Poet. Writer. Educator. Neurospicy . Detroit girl. EIC: @Muzzlemagazine Co-host: @vsthepodcast 🌈 Author of Good Dress, forthcoming with @Tin_House , Fall 2024
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In other things that are bringing me joy news:
How it started VS How it’s going
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My favorite girl took her rest yesterday, and grief is beating my ass. Posting cuz I love her smile, and also to say that communication will likely be a lil sketch, but I’ll accept all hugs, hymns/spiritual recommendations, and funny TikTok’s.
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Imma just sit this here 😭. Feeling very humbled and excited for the opportunity to talk with brilliant writers about their craft AND do it with my best friend ❤️🙏🏿🙌🏿
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Wildly honored to have my poem “Money” included in Mississippi Review’s recent contest issue. Look y’all 😍🥰
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First day of
@Tin_House
winter workshop, and already my book list is too long and my poet brain is activated ❤️
#thww
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For
#313Day
, I’m sharing the cover of my forthcoming poetry collection, Good Dress! Like me, Good Dress is a D girl- audacious, tender, and grounded in the City.
I’m so honored to have
@racheleliza_g
gorgeous art on the cover of my debut!! Happy Detroit Day, y’all!
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Look myself in the mirror, I say we gone win, knock me down 9 times but I get up 10 BITCH 💅🏾♥️
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🧵Ok y’all- I need help! My debut poetry collection Good Dress is coming out
@tinhouse
and one of my epigraphs is from LEGEND
@missyelliot
. I intentionally chose quotes that I felt would best introduce my collection & ME . Problem: I need to get the lyric cleared, which is hard!
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Just found out I was a finalist for an Emerging Poet award. Getting back into submissions after a year 1/2 of not at all. Proud of myself 🥰.
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Currently taking all suggestions for novels to teach in a hero’s journey unit for high school seniors. My babies are all Black or POC, we’re in Detroit proper, and I don’t give af about respectability. Bonus points if there is not a traumatic death at the end.
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Organized my first panel and it got accepted and 🥹🥹🥹
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Black families in matching pjs >>>
Give us all that content 🥹🫶🏾♥️
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I had the honor of caring for my grandmother until the very, very end. After, I stayed here. I won a Gilda award. I got my first two reviews published AND my dream press
@Tin_House
picked up my debut collection ❤️
BRAG ABOUT SOMETHING YOU’RE PROUD OF ACCOMPLISHING IN 2023 ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨
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Wildly excited to announce that I am a Blackburn Fellow, and incoming student at Randolph MFA program 💓💓💓
Congratulations, Brittany Rogers, a 2020
@randolphmfa
Blackburn Fellow!
@brittanyroger_
Photo: Brittany Greeson
#BeAnOriginal
#RandolphBlackburnFellow
#VaMFA
#randolphMFA
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TALK YO SHIT MISSY 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿
Wait what😳😱
#GETURFREAKON
is 20 YEARS OLD 2day?🎂🎉 This is still 20 YEARS AHEAD! I stand 10 toes down🦶🏽🦶🏽Nothing like this song since! Ayyye!🙌🏾 if you ever danced to it tag me!
#HappyGetUrFreakOn
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I’m not usually big on the concept of representation, but Quinta Brunson and the cast of Abbott Elementary have my heart.I wrote this essay as an excited fan, and a grateful Black educator. Thank you so much
@OprahDaily
and esp
@JuliaBerick
❤️!
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So excited to have my poem Treatment Plan (forthcoming in Good Dress) published in the latest issue of
@poetlore
. Many many thanks to
@lutherxhughes
, who selected my poem to be apart of the Queer Love folio ❤️
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Honored to continue the legacy
@stevieedwards87
established, and so excited to be working with
@raenashirali
💓💓 🎉🎉 as the new Co-Editors in Chief of
@MuzzleMagazine
. We promise, your work is in good hands!
We have an announcement to make! After nearly 10 years of service, our founding editor, Stevie Edwards, has decided to pass the torch. We are proud to introduce our new Co-Editors in Chief, Raena Shirali
@raenashirali
& Brittany Rogers
@brittanyroger_
.
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New Year. New website. Same Energy.
Ps: y’all peep the way
@WillieKinardIII
DID THAT!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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So so grateful to Button Poetry for posting a poem I performed at Rustbelt in my city, about our city, about our youth and the school district I was raised in and teach in, about how to protect them when it seem like everybody wants they life. ❤️❤️❤️
“Black kids deserve joy unspeakable and yet, here we are.”
-
@intRHOdeucingMe
WATCH FULL POEM:
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As a person who was poor for a very long time, and is *barely* working class, It always gets interesting on here when people start talking about how much money they think folks do or do not have and revealing all the ways they separate themselves from “hood” folks 🙃🙃🙃
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Thrilled to be working with
@alyssa_ogi
and the
@Tin_House
team!!!! 🤗🤗🤗🤗
So, so excited to help
@brittanyroger_
bring this incredible collection into the world! It's a stunner 🌟
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So excited to announce that my poem Pantoum for Postpartum, originally published with
@TinderboxPoetry
, was chosen to be in
@SundressPub
Best of the Net Anthology!! Thank you to judge
@jasminnemendez
and Tinderbox for believing in my work❤️
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My AP kids are starting their poetry lit circles today. Last year, we read a whole collection (
@pswordwoman
, Blood Dazzler), but I wanted to give them more options. I’m so excited to see how this goes!
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Today my 12th grade babies are analyzing Baby Suggs sermon and creating their own set of affirmations for their community. Love watching them love on their people.
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My AWP haul!! I’m missing a few that I wanted to grab 😭😭 so might have to do another online haul
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I can’t believe I’m entering my last semester at
@randolphmfa
! In the spirit of paying it forward, I would love to sponsor two Black poets who are applying to this program in the upcoming semester . You know someone? Send them my way!
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So remember the poetry collections I assigned to my seniors? The first thing I had them do was annotate the entire collection. They were so thoughtful, and I’m so proud of them!! 😭😭 Poems by
@NifMuhammad
@asgharthegrouch
@_joseolivarez
and
@jerichobrown
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Happy World Poetry Day!!
To celebrate, I’m posting my poem “Throwback Night”, recently published in
@TheSchooner
, and a link to preorder Good Dress!! 🎉🎉
💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
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I received my copy of
@IndianaReview
Winter 2023/2024 issue today! So excited to share a poem from my forthcoming collection Good Dress (
@Tin_House
2024)! Thank you to the editors for accepting this very Detroit poem about Blackness and extravagance❤️
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I just submitted to a scary thing and did not throw up please clap
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"I promise if you hear
Of me dead anywhere near
A cop, then that cop killed me. He took
Me from us and left my body, which is,
No matter what we've been taught,
Greater than the settlement
A city can pay a mother to stop crying..."
from Bullet Points by
@jerichobrown
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Not
@MoonsAtDusk
took me out last night (she’s obviously the prettiest, sweetest date in the world) and we was unintentionally matching 🥺🥺🥺
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So excited to be a finalist and to be included with the brilliant writers on this list🥺. Many congrats to the winners, finalists, and long listed poets!!
📣 announcing the winners of the 2023 Previously Published Poem Prize:
1st: Tariq Thompson
@bealestreetpoet
2nd: Dāshaun Washington
@DashaunDub
3rd: Tiana Clark
@TianaClarkPoet
Congratulations to these poets—poems forthcoming in April!
learn more:
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🤭🤭🤭🤭
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Y’all, when my Granny passed, I inherited her record player and her records. I just got it fixed, and set up a couple days ago. Why I get this from
@MoonsAtDusk
in the mail today?! In case y’all wondering why I’m in this thang with her forever ❤️
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Officially ready to start the
#SealeyChallenge
on Tuesday ❤️Excited to get to know so many new collections (and to revisit a few)
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Such an honor to see Good Dress included in this list!!
Happy
#nationalpoetrymonth
! We rounded up 20 recent and forthcoming debut poetry collections that readers should check out!
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Last Thursday I had the honor of hosting my first AWP Offsite as editor-in-chief of
@MuzzleMagazine
.
@imanixdavis
@realnicolehomer
@samforbreakfast
@capaciousmood
@CropTopAssassin
@mickmakesmagic
@gaiarajan
@rachelsedelman
did wtf had to be done! I can’t thank you all enough ❤️
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Semester wrap-up: my mentor was AMAZING and I got to talk about Flo Milli, Missy, Lil Kim and Noname in my crit ❤️
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We had so much fun talking to
@literari_ana
!! Any time we can talk about the *Black Outside* and the *stories* is a good time ❤️ If you haven’t ordered Black Pastoral yet, what you waiting on?!
2023 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellow Ariana Benson (
@literari_ana
) joins
@brittanyroger_
and
@MoonsAtDusk
to discuss nature, artistic influences, sensuality, and soap operas.
Here she reads from BLACK PASTORAL.
Listen to the episode:
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Hey loves!
I was a semi- finalist for
@TinderboxPoetry
2019 contest. It’s an honor to been chosen for publication amongst such beautiful work! Check out my poem Pantoum for Postpartum and the entire issue if you get a chance
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So excited to have a personal essay published with
@torchlitarts
! If you wanna read about my relationship with my granny, romance novels, and the library, click the link ❤️
It's Friday! Check out "Before Uses of The Erotic" by Torch Friday Feature, Brittany Rogers, online:
#torchliteraryarts
#creativewriting
#supportblackwomen
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My favorite girl transitioned a year ago today. When I tell you EVERYTHING I am (and am not) is this one right here lol. This is just a post to say I miss her real real bad.
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For our listeners ❤️
#FreePalestine
A short statement from Brittany and Ajanaé regarding current events.
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My 5 year old just now- “Mommy, did you actually know you keep playing the same songs every day a little bit”?
I feel like he at my neck, y’all.
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So so honored to be a finalist for the 2020 Furious Flower Poetry Prize. In the midst of all this madness, I’m looking forward to reading poems from these beautiful folks 💓💓💓
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I am halfway through a year I really didn’t think I was going to survive ❤️
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Fall 2024 looks GOODT!!!
Pre-order Good Dress here:
👀 Fall 2024 titles coming from
#LediaXhoga
,
@RaymondAntrobus
,
@ben__shattuck
,
#BenMasters
,
@brittanyroger_
,
@wheatfu
,
@mslcheng
&
#ZahidRafiq
!
Flip through our fabulous Fall 2024 catalog:
or download a PDF:
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1. My grad reading is today and I know I’m nervous cuz I started stress dreaming last night.
2. In my dream all the nails in my graduation set fell off 😭
3. The thought of getting a full set done in a place that’s not Detroit is what woke me up sweating.
The end.
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Still so excited and honored to be making this announcement!! Thank you so much
@poetswritersinc
for including
@raenashirali
and I in your announcement this week 🥰🥰🥰
#DailyNews
:
@MuzzleMagazine
appoints new editors in chief
@raenashirali
and Brittany Rogers;
@colsonwhitehead
announces his next book;
@bookcritics
begins to rebuild, appointing fifteen board members. Catch up on these stories and more news:
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If you have youth grades 7-12, I will be teaching a FREE virtual workshop through Dearborn Public Library. Have them check it out!
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I’m officially planning/booking events for Good Dress! Hit me up if you would like to figure something out 💛
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As a teacher and as a parent of two AUDHD babies with IEPS the way teachers be out of compliance is WILD
Some of y’all are trying to lose your job and/or get sued.
You don’t get to decide you’re just not going to implement a child’s IEP.
Y’all are telling on yourselves and it’s gross.
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Thank you so much
@TinderboxPoetry
!!
✨We are so happy for
@brittanyroger_
who's poem "Pantoum for Postpartum" was included in Best of the Net 2020! ✨ You can read her poem here: and read the whole Best of the Net anthology here:
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Just want enough money to create a safe place to land for Black femmes. We deserve.
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It feels so surreal to be celebrating 10 years of Muzzle Mag , as well as the first issue Co-Edited by myself and Raena Shirali! Needless to say we feeling all the feels ( read all about them in the editor’s note 🙈❤️).
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He’s been holding me hostage for over an hour. Send help.
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Not shorty stole my whole face AND do it better 😭😭😭
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Continuing the
#313Day
love by sharing an ode to the Ice Cam that will be forthcoming in Good Dress, along with the tatt I gifted myself for 313 Day this year 💛
#eastsideraisedme
#48205
to
#48223
For
#313Day
, I’m sharing the cover of my forthcoming poetry collection, Good Dress! Like me, Good Dress is a D girl- audacious, tender, and grounded in the City.
I’m so honored to have
@racheleliza_g
gorgeous art on the cover of my debut!! Happy Detroit Day, y’all!
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Thank you so much to
@nandicomer
and the editors at
@FourWayReview
for this issue. Detroit has shaped so much of who I am- it’s an honor to be included in this issue.
"Oftentimes when I tell people I am from Detroit, people think of Motown or the car industry. But Detroit is a writing city."
Huge thanks to
@nandicomer
for curating this incredible Detroit Poets mini-issue!!
#poetry
#litmag
#Detroit
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It’s the last day of residency and my children have given up all pretense of not wanting to be up under me all the time lol.
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👀😌
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Happy pub day
@aireadee
!! Y’all, this book is a BANGER (of course). Get your copies! And DM me so we can book club it lol
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My weekend plans just got cancelled, I fear 🤷🏿♀️📖🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿
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I mean, I don’t care for *that family * either but as a DV survivor, these antics look real familiar, and I’m real uncomfortable with the way ppl are acting like it’s all jokes and games.
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We’re open for submissions, and so excited to read your work!
We are now open for submissions! Send us poems! Details and link to our Submittable can be found here:
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I’m ever grateful for Black women, and especially grateful to Toi Dericotte for lending us her wisdom. This episode means so much to me as an emerging Black poet, as a person deeply invested in lineage and archival, and as a grieving granddaughter. Please listen when you can! ❤️
On the latest episode of
#VSThePodcast
,
@brittanyroger_
and
@MoonsAtDusk
have the honor of interviewing Toi Derricotte. They speak about preparing for death, the complexity of being a Black woman poet, and the origin story of
@cavecanempoets
.
Listen here:
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The thesis of my 1st manuscript
Black Folks in the midwest ain’t nothing but southern niggas in fur coats
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Some of my favorite shots from my birthday shoot !This the energy 34 is coming with.
#belatedTaurusGifts
Thank you
@LunarHaus
for being the 🐐 with the camera and
@saintdeangelus
for handling the creative direction ❤️
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Finishing Song of Solomon with my students today 😭😭😭😭
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Cannot wait to listen to this conversation!!!
Very excited to share this conversation with Diana Khoi Nguyen about radical eulogy, ghosts and silences, rupture and repetition, and self-making in diaspora. Audio📻🔥:
@rootwards
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You wanna fly, you gotta give up the shit that weighs you down ❤️
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Also wild that I’m finna be a student again this summer (providing there is a summer)
#MFAcomingsoon
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So I call myself being cute, FaceTime cooking with my mama. I mighta accidentally took a sip while I was cooking. Of some brown. From the bottle 😬🙃. I ain’t gone never hear the end of it 😭😭
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Any day I get to write about Detroit AND audacity is a good day. Thank you again to
@mayaamarshall
and
@martyoutloud
for publishing my poem about Detroits ice cam, and giving me space to talk about my editing process. Check out the whole issue at it goes!
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My project is a grown woman’s non traditional coming of age that explores audacity, autonomy, adornment, intimacy, and of course Detroit. In it, I shout out so many Black femmes who were central to my formation of self, and of course,
@MissyElliott
is one of them;
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In case y’all be wondering what type of good morning texts my Best friend sends me 🥺🥰.
@MoonsAtDusk
always sees me, but I figured someone else may also need this message today ❤️.
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In Mrs. Rogers class today : Langston Hughes, I Too Am America and
@mafiasafia
Self-Portrait With No Flag
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