Curated by Kim Shuck [2], San Francisco Poet Laureate in consultation with Pam Peniston, artistic director of the Queer Cultural Center. 

The SFAC is pleased to welcome the The Fire Thieves Poetry Series—an inter-generational and inter-sectional collaboration between established, mid-career and new poets working, producing, and presenting new work—to the gallery for an evening of readings dear to their hearts. A selection of accomplished Native poets read their work surrounded by the powerful and uplifting photographs on view in the exhibition The Continuous Thread [3]. The evening’s readers include Jewelle Gomez [4], playwright, novelist and social justice activist; Stephen Meadows [5], Ohlone poet and KFOF folk music dj; Linda Noel [6], Poet Laureate emerita of Ukiah; Ramona Webb [7], artist in word, movement, and culture change.

The Fire Thieves is made possible by a National Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.