At 12 noon California time on Monday August 3, we will premiere the poetry of Kim Shuck, Poet Laureate of San Francsico.
In this video, Kim Shuck, Poet Laureate of San Francisco, shares some of her daily
poems created under quarantine. These Dispatches reveal a deep
connection to her people, home, and heart, and her powerful creativity.
Kim Shuck embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern
poet and artist. She is a devotee of San Francisco, whose hills she
wanders nearly always on foot. Her maternal grandparents met at the
Polish Hall on Shotwell and she spent many hours with her mother and
grandmother wandering the Mission St. Miracle Mile, taking books out of
the Mission Branch library and watching aquarium fish on the ground
floor of what used to be Hale's. She firmly believes in carrying a
bubble wand, keys, pen and notebook and cats cradle string at all times.
Shuck is widely published in journals, anthologies and a couple of
solo books. She enjoys volunteering in SFUSD elementary school
classrooms to share her loves of origami, poetry and basket making... in
other words, math of various kinds. In 2019 Shuck was awarded an
inaugural National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American
Poets, and a PEN Oakland Censorship Award.
