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Friday March 30, 8-11pm $5
Listen & Be Heard Poetry Café
818 Marin Street, Downtown Vallejo, 94590
707-554-4540

The relationship between me and Kim Shuck is also an informal relationship between Listen & Be Heard and the Native American Cultural Center in San Francisco. The relationship being that Kim sends my way many poets who have graced our stage and added to the tapestry of diversity that is our signature here. This Friday she will come out herself, but not by herself. She will bring along with her fellow Pen Oakland member Slim Russell. It’s always a pleasure to welcome Kim and her friends. They will both also be featured in the 5th Annual Listen & Be Heard Poetry Marathon. Here’s what they have to say about themselves.

Stephanie JT Russell (”Slim”) has enjoyed over 25 years as an artist, author, and educator in the private, nonprofit, and international sectors. Her portfolio encompasses exhibition and performance, design and implementation, interdisciplinary communications, and publishing. Slim has exhibited and performed at world-class venues, been a guest lecturer and published books include Zen: A Spiritual Journey, Everyday Zen, and The Nurturing Teacher. Her most recent books, One Flash of Lightning: A Samurai Path for Living the Moment and The Zen of Small Things, a book of nature photographs and poetry, were released in June 2005 and March 2006, respectively (Andrews McMeel Publishing). Her photographs have been featured in Japan’s Cadet and Brazil’s Istoe magazines.

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 and Fox and Polish, for the most part. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree in weaving in 1998 from San Francisco State University. As a poet Kim has read her work around the United States. In late summer and fall of 2005 she toured through Jordan with a group of poets from many countries in the interest of peace and communication. Shuck has read her work on her local radio. She is co-curator of the Spoken Word Series of the Native American Cultural Center. Kim sat for a time on the board of directors for California Poets in the Schools.