Hi friends, Just wanted to spread the news for an upcoming program here at the Detroit Public Library! Chat with Good Dress Author: Brittany Rogers Saturday, April 12 - 2-3pm Detroit Public Library, Parkman Branch 1766 Oakman Blvd, Detroit, MI 48238 Join us as Michigan Notable Books award recipient Brittany Rogers will sit down to read excerpts from and dialogue about her book, Good Dress. About the Book: In her debut poetry collection, Brittany Rogers explores the audacity of Black Detroit, Black womanhood, class, luxury and 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 what it means 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? About the Author: 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. [Chat with Good Dress author: Brittany Rogers] Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chat-with-good-dress-author-brittany-rogers-tickets-1224208804489?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl Jessica Keeler (she/her<https://pronouns.org/what-and-why>) Assistant Branch Manager/ Youth Services Detroit Public Library, Hubbard Branch<https://detroitpubliclibrary.org/locations/hubbard> 12929 W. McNichols | Detroit, MI 48235 313.481.1751