In this three-part interview, Kim Shuck talks to Kakoli Mitra about her journey as a poet from a very young age and how she came to be the seventh poet laureate of San Francisco, California, United States. She was motivated to change the politics, including an ambiance of sexism, that characterized the primary poetic outlet in San Francisco. Kim narrates how, as poet laureate, she put Native American poets on stages throughout the city. She describes herself as a political poet, elaborating on how she uses her poetry to educate about and expose important issues, such as the vanishing of Indigenous women. Kim explains that the reality of Native American women being disappeared in larger numbers than women of any other ethnicity in the United States is why she feels compelled to write poems about them. She assumed that everyone knew about these disappearings before she wrote a book called Murdered Missing, a compilation of poems about disappeared Native women, ones close to her and ones anonymized. She reads a few of these powerful poems. Murdered Missing was one of her poetry actions, when she was writing one poem a day. “One of the ways they used to be disappeared was into Boarding Schools; it’s an ongoing project,” says Kim.