Author Event | Petra Kuppers: Diver Beneath the Street

When

Wednesday September 25, 2024: 6:30pm to 7:30pm  Add to Calendar /   Add to Google Calendar

Where

Downtown Library: 4th Floor Program Room

Description

In Petra Kuppers's fourth poetry collection, Diver Beneath the Street, a decaying psychogeography unfurls the landscapes of the 1967-69 Michigan Murders, the 2019 Detroit serial killer, and the COVID-19 lockdown in this visceral poetry collection. Author, performance artist, and disability culture activist Petra Kuppers dissects traces of violence in the richness of the soil while honoring lost community members. Dynamic and somatic poems traverse the realms of urban space, wild rivers, and the hinterlands of suburbia, glimpsing the decay of bodies, houses, carpets, hair, and bones by way of ecopoetry.

Petra is joined in conversation with Shelley Manis, lecturer at University of Michigan Sweetland Center for Writing, and host of Sweetland's Writer to Writer series.