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AAPI at Burlingame Library
May 25, 2022New Burmese American Poetry featuring Maw Shein Win, Audrey T. Williams, and Chloe Chou, An Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month presentation by Burlingame Library & San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto
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AAPI in Daly City
May 24, 2022, 5:30pmAAPI Heritage Month Celebration at Serramonte Library sponsored by the City of Daly City Council and San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto
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Black Fire
May 12, 2022, 5:30pmBlack Fire—This Time A Virtual Reading Sponsored by the Daly City Public Library and San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto Join us in celebrating the release of Black Fire—This Time, an anthology on the history and legacy of the Black Arts Movement. In a foreword by Ishmael Reed, poet and MacArthur…
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Mental Health Open Mic
May 11, 2022, 6pm2022 Mental Health Open Mic Join San Mateo County for 2022 Mental Health Month! This year’s theme, #SMCTakeAction4MH, encourages everyone to take actionable steps to address mental health and substance use matters. Check out in-person and virtual events in partnership with local agencies and community members. Wednesday, May 11 | 6pm-7:30pm Mental…
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Women’s Hall of Fame
May 10, 2022, 4:30pm2022 San Mateo County Women’s Hall of FameDevil’s Canyon Brewing Company935 Washington Street, San Carlos
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3rd Annual Filoli Haiku Contest
The Filoli Annual Haiku Contest celebrates its 2nd anniversary with a new Ecopoetry Award! Winner: First PlaceHummingbird on nest.She sits with patience and care.The garden holds her.-Candice Ward Winner: Second Placewisteriaweighed down by frothof too much joy-Jenna Le Winner: Under 18I’m born as a seedThe wind carries my futureA new life begins-Katherine Kelly Winner: Ecopoetry…
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AAPI at Filoli
May 2022Display of winning haiku poems and celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at Filoli
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On craft
I became a poet because I had a story to tell, ideas I wanted to explore, and spaces I wished to share. “If you are a poet,” says the late and great Thích Nhất Hạnh, “you will see clearly that … [as thin as a] sheet of paper is, it contains everything in the universe in…
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Trio House Award
November 1, 2021 to April 30, 2022Trio House Press Book Awards Reading Period Read the guidelines here. TRIO AWARD JUDGE 2022: Aileen Cassinetto
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Coastside outreach
“Poem by Aileen Cassinetto,” Half Moon Bay Review (April 5, 2022) “HMB plans to make Thursdays a Main event,” Half Moon Bay Review (June 23, 2021) “Half Moon Bay students pen inaugural poems, County publishes collection of work,” Half Moon Bay Review (March 10, 2021) “The Next Gen,” Cultural Weekly (January 20, 2021) “Writer finds poetic justice now,” Half Moon Bay…