Livermore Public Library invites the community to attend a Verse on the Vine poetry reading. Hosted by Livermore Poet Laureate Peggy Schimmelman, this program will feature poets Kim Shuck and Lourdes Figueroa. Light refreshments will be served, and an open mic will follow the formal presentations. This free program will take place on Saturday, March 30, 2024, at 2 p.m. in the Storytime Room of the Civic Center Library (1188 S. Livermore Ave.). This event is part of Livermore Reads Together, a community-wide reading program featuring Tommy Orange’s There There.

Kim Shuck was born in San Francisco and is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. She is a poet, weaver and beadwork artist who draws from Southeastern Native American culture and tradition as well as contemporary urban Indian life. She served for over three years as the seventh Poet Laureate of San Francisco and has been a major poet and poetry organizer in the Bay Area since the early 2000s. Her work is published in major journals and in eight solo poetry books.

Lourdes Figueroa is an oral Chicanx queer poet. Her poems are a dialogue of her lived experience when her family worked in el azadón in Yolo County (the work of tilling the soil under the blistering sun.) She is the author of the chapbooks Ruidos = To Learn Speak and Vuelta. Lourdes is a recipient of the Nomadic Press Literary award in Poetry. Her poem Pieces was nominated for a Pushcart prize 2022 by Quiet Lightning. 

For additional program information, call 925-373-5500.