Kush Thompson, a black woman with golden blonde twists, smiles with her eyes closed in front of a red wall. — Brittany Rogers

Readings & Lectures

Good Dress: Brittany Rogers and Kush Thompson

November 2, 2024 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60654

Celebrate the release of VS Podcast co-host Brittany Rogers’s highly anticipated debut poetry collection Good Dress, which relates formative experiences of intimacy, pleasure, and belonging growing up as a Black woman in Detroit. Chicago poet and archival artist Kush Thompson will join Rogers in dialogue.

Murmurs from the poets:

You gotta be from here to get the

joke.

— Brittany Rogers, from Good Dress

Here, where everything grows without permission.
Here, where sunflowers rise from the

potholes

— Kush Thompson, from This, Here

This program is part of the Poetry Foundation’s fall 2024 season, Murmuring Americas. All Poetry Foundation events are completely free of charge and open to the public, though advanced registration is encouraged. The performance space is ADA-compliant and wheelchair-accessible, and the program will feature CART captioning and ASL interpretation. For more information about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation, please visit our Accessibility Guide.

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