🧠 Brain Candy #77

Monday, April 20, 2026
7–9PM
Green Brain Comics

Brain Candy returns for another curated evening of live, original work — a focused arts showcase highlighting writers, musicians, and visual artists in a setting designed to give the work the attention it deserves.

Brain Candy is co-produced by the Dan E. Wickett Legacy Committee, the Brain Candy Network, and Green Brain Comics, continuing a shared commitment to supporting and elevating creative voices in our community.

What You’ll Experience

Brain Candy is not an open mic, not a panel, and not an interactive workshop. It is a curated performance night — structured, intentional, and centered on the art and the artist.

This month’s presenters include:
Music: Matthew Landrum
Matthew Landrum is a poet, translator, musician, and visual artist. He holds an MFA from Bennington College and is the author of Berlin Poems and translator of six books from Faroese. Matthew is Creative Arts Director at Aim High School where he teaches literature, writing, and music. Matthew is a advocate of creative Christian community.

Poetry: Petra Kuppers
Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist. She is the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture in the English and Women’s and Gender Studies departments at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and she teaches in the low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College.

Prose: Laura Thomas
Laura Hulthen Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer and essayist, author of States of Motion, and a Teaching Professor at the University of Michigan’s Residential College, where she leads the undergraduate creative writing program. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals, and she lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Visual art: Nancy Wanchik
Nancy Wanchik is a Metro Detroit–based mixed media artist whose work has been collected across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. A self-taught creator, she specializes in layered collage using materials like newspaper, tissue paper, watercolor, ink, and acrylic, drawing inspiration from nature, emotion, and Detroit’s art scene.

Host: Jason Storms
Jason Storms is a poet, musician, and critic from Interlochen living in Metro Detroit. His work has previously appeared in The Rumpus, Fugue, The Dunes Review, The Leon Literary Review, The Museum of Americana and is forthcoming in The Great Lakes Review. He holds an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.

Each event features a thoughtfully assembled lineup of creators presenting original work across disciplines: