An Evening of Poetry and Collective Imagination for Women’s History Month
The Michigan State University Museum will present Speculative Futures | The Future is Feminine on Wednesday, March 11, 2026, from 6:00–7:30 p.m. in the MSU Museum Commons. Presented as part of the Museum’s year-long Speculative Futures series, this Women’s History Month program invites audiences to explore how poetry can help imagine more just, expansive, and inclusive futures.
As a creative collaboratory that catalyzes creativity at the intersection of arts, sciences, cultures, and technologies, the MSU Museum creates space for dialogue and experimentation. The Future is Feminine brings that mission to life through an evening of poetry and conversation featuring Detroit-based poet and educator Brittany Rogers alongside MSU student poets. Together, they will explore themes inspired by women’s histories and feminist futures while welcoming diverse voices and perspectives into the exchange.
Through performance and reflection, the program considers how language becomes a tool for transformation and how storytelling can question inherited systems and open pathways toward collective possibility.
“Speculative Futures asks us to imagine beyond existing structures and to think about what comes next,” said Natasha T. Miller, the MSU Museum’s Community Engagement Manager and a three-time top-five finalist at the Women of the World Poetry Slam. “For Women’s History Month, we are honoring the long tradition of feminist imagination while inviting a range of voices into the creative process.”
The event underscores the Museum’s commitment to student engagement and interdisciplinary exchange. By elevating emerging writers alongside established artists, the program models how creative practice can spark meaningful connections across campus and community.
“I feel fortunate to have been shaped by feminist writers and scholars who are now ancestors: Toni Morrison, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Nikki Giovanni; I am equally grateful to be participating in Speculative Futures, to contribute to our collective imagination around the expansiveness and unlimited possibility of feminism in future generations,” said Brittany Rogers.
This program is in partnership with the Center for Poetry in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities.