Poets & Their Darlings
Burlingame Public Library
April 5, 1pm
Join us for our annual National Poetry Month celebration! This poetry reading for adults and teens will feature poets from our 2024/2025 poetry programs and youth poet laureate candidates. Poets will share original work alongside poems from their poetry idols. Come and support our local community of poets! Light refreshments will be served. Registration is not required, but sign up if you’d like a reminder email! The event will feature readers from our Community Open Mic, an open mic series co-founded by Erika Bojnowski and Aileen Cassinetto in 2023.
SMC Climate Ribbon Celebration
Featuring SMC Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto & Lyrical Opposition
County Center
April 10, 12pm
Climate Ribbon is an interactive art installation encouraging participants to reflect on this central question: What do you love and hope to never lose to climate change? To celebrate this upcoming Earth Day, the San Mateo County Office of Arts & Culture and Sustainability Department are partnering to bring Climate Ribbon to San Mateo County. Throughout the month of April, Climate Ribbon will serve as a living installation in the County Center courtyard, where County employees and members of the public can share their responses to this question by writing on recycled ribbons and hanging these on a display.
Filoli Annual Haiku Contest & Ecopoetry Award
Submission deadline: April 14th
Announcement of finalists: April 22nd, Earth Day
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the contest, we are featuring work that highlights nature’s many generosities and the role it plays as a place for contemplation, joy, and healing. Please share your own personal and communal stories around Filoli’s Garden and the way it keeps us rooted and resilient. The special Ecopoetry Award will recognize a haiku that celebrates this theme while touching on the connection between humans and the environment. To submit your work or for more info, please visit filoli.org/haiku
Aileen Cassinetto 