BAFS Second Sunday Poetry Class "Kenning": Ft. Virginia Schultz and Esther Shipsey

About This Event

In their first joint workshop, BAFS alumni Esther Shipsey and Virginia Schultz explore the art of naming as a way of knowing. From the Old Norse skalds to Heaney and Joyce to the Beverly Hillbillies, kenning has served for a thousand years as a mind-door, a shade-form, an eye-key, a guide. In this workshop, we will study, play, and collaborate to create a tookit for bringing familiar forms into new shapes which prime, engage, beguile, transport, and reorient the reader into a world of your creation.Esther Shipsey Bio:Writing naively from the body and ear, Esther Shipsey’s voice is goofy, worldly, prophetic, lucid, tender, cutthroat, and femme. Her poems accordion years, stitch and scatter dialects, stretch and squeeze lifetimes, and loosen tangled songs of delusion, revelation, destiny, victory, and choice. A woman of trans experience in recovery from addiction, Esther chooses to believe in life after survival and the guarantee of neither. She hopes that you do too.Virginia Bio: Living, playing, writing, breathing on the traditional homelands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute People.Esther has taught or featured at Writer’s Block, Stand Together, BAFS Second Sunday, Jazzetry, and Punketry, sporting publications in Plains Paradox and the New Feathers Anthology. She lives in Denver, Colorado, is seeking opportunities for teaching and publication, and will give you a cigarette if you ask very nicely.