Summer Rogers

Summer Rogers' goal has been to transfer her imagination and energy into activities, events, and discussions with generations X, Y, Z. Besides passing along wisdom from the beat and beat up generations, she is a community organizer, youth mentor, and substitute teacher in Chicago. Summer is a Loyola University New Orleans graduate and former intern of the New Orleans Review and New Orleans' OffBeat Magazine.

Publication credits:
Bad Girl Magazine; Wrapped Around My Neck and Hunger: December, 1997, The Maroon: Women Seen as Weaker Sex by Society: April 1999, WREC Magazine; Iris May Tango Near You: June 1999, OffBeat Magazine; The Revealers: More Than Reggae: June 1999.

the day Mama was born I rushed breakfast of cake and coffee. My morning was drowsy like the sun that day. The crispness of my routine painted the air, the portrait of naiveté. I didn’t know. I didn’t know why they came. Why they hated, trying not to hurt. How do we live the way we do? Made in somewhere other than America becomes a part of my story. >>>