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URL:https://sites.udmercy.edu/campusconnection/events/udm-features-detroit
 -poets-brittany-rogers-and-tommye-blount-for-reading-and-conversation/
SUMMARY:UDM features Detroit poets Brittany Rogers and Tommye Blount for re
 ading and conversation
DESCRIPTION:Detroit Mercy’s Department of English will host a special nig
 ht of poetry and conversation with poets\, Brittany Rogers and Tommye Blou
 nt\, on Tuesday\, Feb. 24\, at 6 p.m.\, in Room 114 of the Chemistry Build
 ing.\n\nA reception and book signing will precede the event at 5:30 p.m.\,
  where copies of Rogers' Good Dress and Blount's Fantasia for the Man in B
 lue will be available for sale.\n\nAll are invited to attend this free eve
 nt.\n\nBlount\, a native of Detroit\, is the author of the chapbook What A
 re We Not For and the full-length collection of poetry Fantasia for the Ma
 n in Blue\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award\, the Kate Tu
 fts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry. A graduat
 e from Warren Wilson College’s MFA Program for Writers\, Blount is the r
 ecipient of many commendations\, fellowships and grants including from the
  Desert Rat Residency\, Cave Canem and Kresge Arts.\n\nRogers is a multidi
 sciplinary artist\, educator and lifelong Detroiter. Her work has been pub
 lished widely\, including the Academy of American Poets\, Lit Hub and Opra
 h Daily. Her poetry collection Good Dress was a Michigan Notable Book for 
 2025 and finalist for both the NAACP Image Award and the Lambda Literary A
 ward for Bisexual Poetry. Rogers was awarded the Betty Berzon Emerging Wri
 ter Award and a Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship.\n\nThis event is co-spo
 nsored by the African American Studies Program and Student Life.\nReserve 
 tickets here.
LOCATION:Room 114\, Chemistry Building\, 4001 W. McNichols Road\, Detroit\,
  Michigan\, 48221\, United States
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