Event Speaker: Ziysah von Bieberstein

Ziysah von Bieberstein is a poet, editor, and unsettled settler who finds home in queer, Jewish, and activist communities. As co-founder of Take-Out Poetry, ze curates teams of poets to serve up fresh, customized, typewritten poetry from a bicycle-drawn cart. Ziysah’s most recent collection, Consents +/=/- Severances, has been described as “ a necessary upheaval” and “an ecstatic kind of justice.” Ziysah is grateful to be living on Michi Saagiig Aanishinaabe territory where they are currently serving as Peterborough’s Poet Laureate.