“City Launches Youth Poet Laureate Program, First Of Its Kind In San Mateo County,” SF Gate (January 15, 2021)
“San Mateo County’s poet laureate Aileen Cassinetto said Daly City’s youth program “amplifies the role of youth in the community and the power of the literary arts in inspiring civic engagement.”
“I see the Youth Poet Laureate as the city’s literary ambassador, creating necessary spaces so that the voices of other young people can be heard,” Cassinetto said in a statement. “I see this role as giving shape to our young people’s hopes, fears, perspectives, sense of purpose, and sense of community.”
Cassinetto is one of the newest members of the board of the Daly City Public Library Associates (DCPLA), a “Friends of the Library” group that supports the library with fundraising.”
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*San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto is an advocate of youth poet laureate programs in and around the county. She also helped to establish a countywide Annual Youth Poetry & Art Competition in collaboration with the San Mateo County Housing Leadership Council, an Annual Haiku Competition in collaboration with Filoli Historic House & Garden, and the first ecopoetry workshop at the Youth Climate Ambassadors Summer Retreat.
Aileen Cassinetto 