Heather Bourbeau with Salty Walt and Kim Shuck / Monarch

Booksmith hosts Heather Bourbeau for the launch of her book Monarch, with additional performances by Salty Walt & Kim Shuck on March 16, 2023.
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- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -
Heather Bourbeau’s fiction and poetry have appeared in 100 Word Story, Alaska Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review, Meridian, The Stockholm Review of Literature, and SWWIM. She is the winner of La Piccioletta Barca’s inaugural competition and the Chapman Magazine Flash Fiction winner, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She was a contributing writer to Not On Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond with Don Cheadle and John Prendergast, and has worked with various UN agencies, including the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia and UNICEF Somalia. Her collection Some Days The Bird is a poetry conversation with the Irish-Australian poet Anne Casey (Beltway Editions, 2022). Her latest collection Monarch is a poetic memoir of overlooked histories from the US West she was raised in (Cornerstone Press, 2023). www.heatherbou...
Kim Shuck embraces the fool and jester qualities of being a modern poet and artist. She is a devotee of San Francisco, whose hills she wanders nearly always on foot. Her maternal grandparents met at the Polish Hall on Shotwell and she spent many hours with her mother and grandmother wandering the Mission St. Miracle Mile, taking books out of the Mission Branch library and watching aquarium fish on the ground floor of what used to be Hale's. She firmly believes in carrying a bubble wand, keys, pen and notebook and cats cradle string at all times. Shuck is widely published in journals, anthologies and a couple of solo books. She enjoys volunteering in SFUSD elementary school classrooms to share her loves of origami, poetry and basket making... in other words, math of various kinds. In 2019 Shuck was awarded an inaugural National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets, and a PEN Oakland Censorship Award. kimshuck.com/
"Salty Walt" Walter has traveled the US and Europe performing and educating at museums and festivals as well as supporting a broad array of historical and cultural activities here in the Bay area. He is a repeat performer at the National Sea Chantey Festival at Mystic Seaport. Back when there was an SF Bay Guardian he was awarded the title San Francisco's Favorite Sea Chantey Band. From sailing Tall Ships to working with the SF Maritime Museum, he's always quick to offer up a song or explain how systems of power are not always what they seem. / saltywalt
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