Last month, Detroit-based poet, teacher, and visual artist Brittany Rogers released her new book, Good Dress. The non-traditional coming-of-age story witnesses a speaker coming into her own autonomy and selfhood as a young adult, while also reflecting on formative moments experienced in childhood.
“I have to let go of a lot of the control that I felt like I really wanted over things. So that's where I was when I wrote most of these poems," Rogers told Stateside.
The collection is also a space to examine the clashes that occur between what women give as nurturers, and the things that caretaking can squeeze out of them. Rogers drew on her own family's matriarchs — and her childhood in Detroit — to explore what it means to grow up and how desire changes throughout a lifetime.
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Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions.
