Poetry Event: Stephanie Heit and Petra Kuppers

 

Come join us for a reading with Stephanie Heit (PSYCH MURDERS) and Petra Kuppers (GUT BOTANY). 

Petra Kuppers (she/her) is a disability culture activist, a writer, and a community performance artist. Petra grounds herself in disability culture methods, and uses somatics, performance, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. Her latest academic study is Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters (University of Minnesota Press, 2022, open access). Her third performance poetry collection, Gut Botany (Wayne State University Press, 2020), won the 2022 Creative Book Award by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. Petra is Artistic Director of The Olimpias, an international disability culture collective, and she co-creates Turtle Disco, a somatic writing studio. She is the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. www.petrakuppers.com

 

Stephanie Heit (she/her) is a queer disabled poet, dancer, teacher, and codirector of Turtle Disco, a somatic writing space on Anishinaabe land in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She is a Zoeglossia Fellow, bipolar, a shock/psych system survivor, a mad activist, and a member of the Olimpias, an international disability performance collective. Her hybrid memoir poem PSYCH MURDERS (Wayne State University Press, 2022) takes you inside psychiatric wards and shock treatments toward new futures of care. The Color She Gave Gravity (The Operating System, 2017) explores the seams of language, movement, and mental health difference. Her work has appeared in journals such as Orion, Sonora Review, BathHouse, Venti, Rogue AgentEcotone, Anomaly, and About Place. https://stephanie-heit.com

 

WE HAVE COPIES OF BOTH BOOKS IN STORE! To purchase Gut Botany online, click 'Ask a Bookseller' and we will reserve a copy for you. 

 

Event date: 
Sunday, October 16, 2022 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Event address: 
3546 Michigan Ave.
Detroit, MI 48216-1007
Psych Murders (Made in Michigan Writers) By Stephanie Heit Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780814349878
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Wayne State University Press - September 6th, 2022

Gut Botany (Made in Michigan Writers) By Petra Kuppers Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780814347638
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Wayne State University Press - March 3rd, 2020