The Children Are My Gods Now-Poetry Chapbook
The Children are My Gods Now is a collection of poems from the past ten years of my life exploring themes of depression, religion, children, and parenthood. With tender anger, I write about my experience growing up in Colorado and in conservative Evangelicalism in the U.S., dealing with depression, and the struggle of raising children through a pandemic and beyond.
Also available as an Ebook from Lulu.
Here is what some of the folks in my cohort had to say about my book:
The Children Are My Gods Now by Levi Rogers is a raw, evocative, and humorous collection of poetry that pulses with the chaos, beauty, and contradictions of life. Rogers explores the weight of parenthood, the tense journey of separating from one’s religious faith, the relationship between the two, and the impact these experiences can have on a life with poignant honesty and unflinching wit.
Christian Orellana, author of In the Pocket of a Beast
In a collection dealing with anger, betrayal, and losing oneself, Levi Rogers’ The Children Are My Gods Now leaves the reader with a surprising sense of ease. Rogers delivers the rawness of alienation with a vulnerability that makes the grief accessible and opens spaces for healing and calm.
Lucy Cohen, author of Weaning Stories.
UTAH! A Novel
Fleeing from ever present wildfires and the threat of the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupting, Lee, Becca, and their daughter Analise embark on a road-trip through the state of Utah to a wedding in Zion National Park. Set in the not-too-distant-future, Utah! is a novel about climate change and the intricacies of relationships—between family, partners, religious structures, nature, and the American West. Featuring a litany of intriguing Utah residents including ex and current Mormons, doomsday preppers, military vets, Presbyterian ministers, and Colombian housewives, these characters eventually find their paths crossing in violence, disaster, and friendship. Through desert islands, climbing gyms, beer bars, suburbia, mountains, coffee shops, long drives, and mass shootings, Utah! seeks to show the true diversity, beauty, and yes, sometimes peculiar, aspects of one of the most misunderstood states. It’s a novel about the smoldering darkness beneath the surface of our individual selves and society … and what happens when we refuse to acknowledge our past transgressions. Utah! is a slow burn of a novel that ends with an explosive finish.
Reviews:
“Levi Rogers takes on the odd and fascinating juxtapositions of the Beehive State in “Utah!” With humor and deep empathy for the pains of living day to day, he plumbs the question: Does humanity deserve to be saved? Rife with historical, cultural and geologic gems endemic to Utah, he engages readers in a quest that might lead us out of the snarled conditions of hate, greed and global ill health in which we find ourselves today.”
-Bernadette Murphy, author, “Harley and Me: Embracing Risk on the Road to a More Authentic Life” and proud transplant to Park City, Utah.
“Rogers’ plainspoken prose deftly depicts ordinary life interspersed with images of personal and societal doom.”
-Kirkus Reviews
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF MELANCHOLY
Short Stories. Fiction.