Speculative Futures | The Future is Feminine featuring Brittany Rogers

Wed, March 11, 2026 6:00 PM - Wed, March 11, 2026 7:30 PM at MSU Museum, 409 West Circle Drive, East Lansing, MI

The RCAH center for Poetry is proud to play a small part in the MSU Museum's celebration of Women's History Month!

Celebrate Women’s History Month with an evening of powerful poetry that envisions new futures shaped by women’s voices. Detroit-based poet and educator Brittany Rogers joins MSU student poets for a reading exploring imagination, resilience, and possibility through a feminist lens. Part of the Speculative Futures series, The Future is Feminine invites audiences to consider how storytelling and poetry can reimagine identity and justice in America’s next chapter.

 

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Click here to register.

 

Brittany Rogers is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and lifelong Detroiter. Her work has been published widely, including the Academy of American Poets, Lit Hub, The Hopkins Review, Lambda Literary, and Oprah Daily. She is Editor-in-Chief of Muzzle Magazine, co-host of VS Podcast, and the author of the poetry collection Good Dress, a Michigan Notable Book for 2025, and finalist for both the NAACP Image Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Bisexual Poetry (Tin House, 2024). In addition to being a finalist for Detroit Narrative Agency’s Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship in 2024,  she was a 2024 resident of  POWERHOUSE and a 2024 WOMXNHOUSE artist. In 2025, Brittany was awarded the Betty Berzon Emerging Writer Award and a Kresge Arts in Detroit Fellowship.

 

 

The MSU student poets are RCAH Center for Poetry interns Frank Jefferies, Gabrielle Yeary, and Jeremiah Young-Walker

Frank Jefferies is a sophomore majoring in Arts & Humanities and minoring in Horticulture, but poetry is his one true love. Frank started writing poetry when he was 10 years old and hasn't stopped since. Growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he thrived in a small community of poets that met at local bookstores for readings, learning through that process the enormous value in the sharing of poetry with one's community. His chosen poetry styles both to read and create are prose poetry, poet's theatre, free verse, and concrete. When he’s not writing or reading poetry he’s playing guitar, collaging, editing music videos, or sitting next to a creek in silence. Amen. 

 

Gabrielle Yeary is a junior pursuing a dual degree in English and World Politics, along with a triple minor in Arabic, Anthropology, and History. Born in Ohio, she spent most of her childhood with the tradition of oral storytelling from my family. In her free time, she likes to spend time with her loved ones, watch films, and play with her elderly cat, Oreo. She’s excited to explore the threshold between poetry and community engagement with her position this year.

 

Jeremiah Young-Walker is an English major specializing in creative writing. The feeling of shared community and empathy that storytelling creates has stuck with him since an early age but, especially in the current climate, perhaps now more than ever. He remains active in poetry and writing events around campus and the East Lansing area. To relax, he likes to read, bike, play games or frisbee, draw, perform, or enjoy some Dungeons and Dragons. After working with the RCAH Center for Poetry in past semesters, he is ecstatic to work with the center as an intern and spread storytelling to whoever would like to stop and take a moment to listen.