Madder: A Memoir in Weeds

Thursday, October 13, 2022 4:30 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Wilkins Plaza Tent, between the Johnson Center and Horizon Hall

Marco Wilkinson uses the physicality and metaphor of undervalued plants to explore his obscured family history, and his sense of self in Madder: A Memoir in Weeds. Essayist Lia Purpura says, “In the lush ecotone between poetry and prose, Marco Wilkinson, horticulturalist and caretaker of all things underseen, has propagated an extraordinary space where ‘the lost are found, one way or another, and cradled.’”