Join former San Francisco Poet Laureate in this family-friendly event and enjoy her celebratory poetry about deer, especially inhabitants of San Francisco. Shuck explores how these resilient herbivores embody the heartbreaking and exhilarating blend of natural and urban settings. Deer meander under highways and along park streams in the poet’s lyric range. Of the poet’s book Deer Trails (from City Lights), Dawn Pettigrew writes, “She is blending tradition with modernity, history with humor and her own Indigenous perspective with everything else. She is kind enough to invite us all into her mind, her life and her tribe.” A recent chapbook, A-wi / Deer, is co-authored with Denise Low. 

Kim Shuck is a poet, author, weaver, and bead work artist who draws from Southeastern Native American culture and tradition as well as contemporary urban Indian life. She was born in San Francisco, CA, and belongs to the northern California Cherokee diaspora. She is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.

Friday, October 18, 7:00 PM