Pick a Garnet to Sleep in features poems of loss, of resistance to injustice, of celebration of the natural world, and of appreciation of art and poetry itself. Begun during the pandemic, this book ultimately is unified by hope.
Kim Shuck is the 7th Poet Laureate Emerita of San Francisco. Shuck is author of ten books of poems and prose. She is also editor, co-editor, part of the editing team or edit curious for ten anthologies. Kim has various awards and fellowships associated with her writing ranging from a Inaugural National Laureate Fellowship and a Censorship Award from PEN Oakland to a Second Place in a radio screenplay contest in 6th grade.
