Thu April 19, 2018
San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck with poet Tongo Eisen-Martin
SEE EVENT DETAILSMechanics’ Institute is proud to welcome San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate, Kim Shuck, the first person of Cherokee descent to hold this honorable position. She succeeds Alejandro Murguia and Jack Hirschman. As a fifth generation San Francisco resident of Cherokee and Polish heritage, she is devoted to giving voice to the city’s diverse voices through the power of language and culture. This can be experienced in her full-length collections Rabbit Stories and Smuggling Cherokee. Kim will be joined by poet Tongo Eisen-Martin whose passionate work confronts issues of injustice and incarceration, power politics and struggles for survival.
Mechanics’ Institute is proud to welcome San Francisco’s seventh Poet Laureate, Kim Shuck, the first person of Cherokee descent to hold this honorable position. She succeeds Alejandro Murguia and Jack Hirschman. As a fifth generation San Francisco resident of Cherokee and Polish heritage, she is devoted to giving voice to the city’s diverse voices through the power of language and culture. This can be experienced in her full-length collections Rabbit Stories and Smuggling Cherokee. Kim will be joined by poet Tongo Eisen-Martin whose passionate work confronts issues of injustice and incarceration, power politics and struggles for survival.
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