Kim Shuck & Duane Big Eagle at Many Rivers, January 21

[Jim Wilson]

Many Rivers will be hosting a poetry reading this coming Thursday, January 21st, at 7:30 PM.

Join us for an evening of poetry read by two poets, Kim Shuck and Duane Big Eagle, with Native American ancestry and ties to Sonoma County, including a celebration of the book Clouds Running In by Kim Shuck.

Kim Shuck is a poet, weaver, educator, doer of piles of laundry, planter of seeds, traveler and child wrangler. She was born in her mother's hometown of San Francisco, one hill away from where she now lives. Her ancestors were and are Tsalagi, Sauk, Fox, and Polish, for the most part. She earned MFA in weaving from SF State. She is an award-winning poet, prose writer and visual artist.

Sonoma County poet Duane Big Eagle is an Osage Indian from Oklahoma. He has a degree from Berkeley and has been publishing poetry since the 70's. He has taught creative writing since 1976 with the California Poets in the Schools program and presently teaches Native American Studies at the college level. He has received Artist-in-Residence grants from several institutions and has won awards including the W. A. Gerbode Poetry Award. He is a traditional American Indian singer and Osage Southern Straight dancer.

Date: January 21st
Day: Thursday
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Many Rivers Books & Tea
Address: 130 S. Main Street, Sebastopol
Cost: By donation
Questions: Call Many Rivers at 829-8871