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Interviews
“Dear Aileen Cassinetto 2022,” The Academy of American Poets (June 2022) “Poets Laureate Fellows Interview: Aileen Cassinetto,” The Academy of American Poets (December 2021) “Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto: ‘This is the book that ultimately decolonized me’,” San Mateo County Libraries (March 30, 2021) “Writer finds poetic justice now,” Half Moon Bay Review (June 2020) “Aileen Cassinetto //…
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Final SMCPL reading
June 28, 2022, 9amFinal San Mateo County Poet Laureate Reading at San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Meeting Agenda. Watch the reading.
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Dear Poet 2022, “There are no kings in America”
Coming from an immigrant family, being first-generation born here in America, I felt like your poem was the most relatable. Did you feel as if it were necessary to cover the fact that we all are equal? Did your experience with being an immigrant who moved from the Philippines to America motivate you to create…
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LitPinyx & Daly City Farewell to SMCPL
June 25, 2022, 3pmDaly City Public Library Poetry Save the date as San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto wraps up her tenure with a final DCPL poetry event featuring an all-Pinxy lineup. Sponsored by the Daly City Public Library and the Daly City Public Library Associates. Featuring Melinda Luisa de Jesus, Amy L. Pabalan,…
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Poetry San Jose
June 14, 2022, 7pm Please join us via Zoom for Poetry Center San José & Works/San José’s Well-RED series, June 14 at 7pm!
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Breaking Down Walls LIVE
Metro Film and Arts’ “Breaking Down Walls” Celebrating Our Shared Humanity Through the Arts (“Breaking Down Walls” highlights how performance arts can build common ground for recognition and celebration of shared humanity. We explore what it means to transcend today’s deeply felt divisions along political, religious, social, racial and economic lines. Conceived and produced by…
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Immigrant Heritage Month
June 8, 2022County of San Mateo Immigrant Services’ “A Celebration of Immigrant Heritage Month & Poetry Open Mic Night,” June 8 at 6pm
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Burlingame & Redwood Shores Rotarians’ Community Poem
When I was a little girl in the Philippines, I would often see posters about The Four-Way Test, which is a test used by Rotarians as a moral code for personal and business relationships. Just as poetry is built on the idea of what it means to be human, The Four Way Test is driven…
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Daly City poetry reading
May 26, 2022, 5pm-6pmAn Evening with Poets Jacques J. Rancourt, Randall Mann & Benjamin Gucciardi at the John Daly Library, 134 Hillside Blvd., Daly City, sponsored by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto