Please join us for a special reading on Sunday, September 26th, 3 PM, in the Sacred Hoop Garden of the Northbrae Community Church.
In the shadow of the current crises of our society, we seek surcease from the transmitted wisdom of the people who lived on this continent before European Civilization arrived. Two poets with indigenous heritage will read from poems written to keep their ancestral culture alive and to speak to the moment we live in now.
Denise Low and Kim Shuck will share their work in the Sacred Hoop Garden behind the Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley. We hope you can join us, masked and vaccinated.
Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09, is winner of a Red Mountain Press Award for Shadow Light. Other recent publications are a memoir, The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival (U. of Nebraska Press), a Hefner Heitz Award finalist; Wing (Red Mountain); Casino Bestiary (Spartan); and Jackalope (Red Mountain, fiction). She is co-author of Northern Cheyenne Ledger Art by Fort Robinson Breakout Survivors (U. of Nebraska Press). At Haskell Indian Nations University she founded the creative writing program. She teaches for Baker University’s School of Professional and Graduate Studies. She is contributing editor to Essay Daily’s Midwessay project. She lives in California’s Sonoma County on Tsuno Mountain, homeland of Pomo people. www.deniselow.net
Kim Shuck was born in San Francisco, California, and is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She received a BA in Art and an MFA in Textiles from San Francisco State University. Shuck is the author of Exile Heart from That Painted Horse Press (2021), Deer Trails from City Lights Press (2019), Clouds Running In (Taurean Horn Press, 2014), Rabbit Stories (Poetic Matrix Press, 2013), and Smuggling Cherokee (Greenfield Review Press, 2005), as well as of the chapbook collection Sidewalk Ndn (FootHills Press, 2018). In 2019, Shuck was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and has served as the poet laureate of San Francisco, California.