Joy Again
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"Kenyatta Rogers is a poet with a wonderful sense of flow. My favorites among his poems tend to be associative, with connective tissue that's more intuitive than logical."
Check out my debut poetry collection forthcoming 2027 from Trio House Press.
"No poet is more attentive than Kenyatta Rogers to all the marvelous things that hide inside reality. These poems are good like Donald Pleasence, good like grilled cheese, good like friends and animals and pizza and trees. Funny and mysterious, everyday and extraordinary, these poems contemplate what can be known and what’s unknowable."
—Kathleen Rooney, author of O Western Wind
"The textual topography of Joy Again is threaded with ars poetica—'give me the poem that smells like gasoline'—as Rogers burns away the boring, trilling our ears with seductive strangenesses, and reminding us 'your dreams are amazing.'
—Simone Muenc, author of The Under Hum
About Me
Kenyatta Rogers is a Cave Canem fellow and has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. His work has been previously published in or forthcoming from the Academy of American Poets, Poetry, Jubilat, Bat City Review, The Volta, PANK, and MAKE Magazine, among others. Rogers is a lead teacher for the Poetry Foundation’s Teacher Institute. He serves on the board of directors for AWP and the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame. A Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, he is a cohost of the Sunday Reading Series with Simone Muench and lives in Chicago. His debut poetry Before I Let Go is forthcoming in 2027 from Trio House Press.
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