Literary MagNet: Brittany Rogers
The author of the debut poetry collection Good Dress highlights a thoughtful selection of literary journals that helped shepherd her poems into the world, including Underbelly and Hopkins Review.
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The author of the debut poetry collection Good Dress highlights a thoughtful selection of literary journals that helped shepherd her poems into the world, including Underbelly and Hopkins Review.
“Writing kept me grounded, but it also reopened some wounds.” —Melissa Rivero, author of Flores and Miss Paula
“Just keep listening to the work, one poem at a time.” —Heather Lanier, author of Psalms of Unknowing
“You have time.” —JoAnna Novak, author of Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
“Everything you are afraid of will be surpassed by desires you cannot yet imagine.” —Elizabeth Metzger, Lying In
The author of Sing Something True recounts the path to writing the memoir she was afraid to write, grieving her identity as a writer after rejection, and finding solace (and representation) after shifting focus away from publication.
“I wanted to write female friendship in a way that felt honest to me.” —Christine Kandic Torres, author of The Girls in Queens
Advice on becoming a writer ignores the impact of motherhood—and fails to acknowledge the privileges of canonical writers. The author describes learning “to see art-making as a professional possibility” as a brown mother-writer.
Three new anthologies, including The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood.
“This was the book I was meant to write my whole life.” —Neel Patel, author of Tell Me How to Be