Kim Shuck is a visual artist and poet. She is author of 11 solo books, two co-authored books, and has contributed to many journals and anthologies. Shuck has also been involved in editing another 12 books. She imagines building a book fort soon. Kim is the 7th Poet Laureate Emerita of San Francisco. Her latest full length book of poetry is Pick a Garnet to Sleep In.
MC – Indigenous Poetry: Words that Map the Natural World
Moderator – Bringing our Youth Back to the Land
Dan Alter’s poems, reviews and translations have been published in journals including Field, Fourteen Hills, and Zyzzyva; his first collection My Little Book of Exiles won the 2022 Cowan Poetry Prize. A volume of translations Take a Breath, You’re Getting Excited, from the Hebrew of Yakir Ben-Moshe, was published by Ben Yehuda Press in September 2024, and Hills Full of Holes, a second collection of poems, by Fernwood Press in March 2025. He lives with his wife and daughter in Berkeley. He works at the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at UC Berkeley.
Speaker – A Compass in the Wilderness: Poetry in the Age of Environmental Crisis
