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Women’s Equality Day
Join us for Women’s Equality Day, celebrating women’s right to vote and amplifying the voices of women who are shaping equitable and thriving communities. Facilitated by Commissioner LaSaundra Gutter, this dynamic 1.5 hour program features San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Noelia Corzo, Lisa Gauthier, and Jackie Speier engaging in personal stories and shared wisdom…
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Everybody’s Climate 2025
The chaos produced by our changing climate is steadily increasing. Poetry can be both solace and activism. Poets Molly Fisk and Kim Shuck invite you to hear poems from varied perspectives about wildfire, flooding and related catastrophes in California. They will be joined by six other contributors to the California Fire & Water anthology: Gene…
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Immigrant Heritage Month
I’ve been organizing Immigrant Heritage Month events for many years, but this one feels especially meaningful as part of my ongoing collaboration with Skyline College Library. My gratitude to Saul Milan and the library for their installation portraying the movements, struggles, and freedoms woven into migration stories. It includes miniature handmade passports pinned over an…
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Flor Y Canto
“If You Want To Know What We Are” A Filipinx Poetas Reading (part of San Francisco International Flor Y Canto Literary Festival), hosted by Medicine for Nightmares Saturday, June 21, 20254:00 PM 5:00 PM3036 24th Street, San Francisco From Medicine for Nightmares: 4 powerful Filipinx poetas read their work in our galeria as part of the San…
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The 2025 Foley Poetry Prize
I’m overjoyed to have received this year’s Foley Prize for Poetry. A heartfelt thank you to the judges for the care and attention they gave to my work, and congratulations to America Magazine on its 116th year of publishing poetry and other commentaries. “CATALOG OF CURES IN ORDINARY TIME, our unanimous winner, features a grief-stricken speaker who draws the…
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Remembering Nick Carbó
This beautiful essay by my mentor Eileen Tabios on the pioneering and legendary poet Nick Carbó echoes the broader trajectory of our Filipino history here in the U.S. (a historical and sociocultural arc that stretches from 1587 through the American colonial period to the more recent waves of immigration). Thank you, Eileen and Nick. Though…
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Bone Flute book launch
Please join us in celebrating the launch of BONE FLUTE: A WOMAN SPEAKS by Irene Adler, on June 8th (virtual) and July 2nd (in-person)! Thank you so much to Hilary King and Poetry Los Altos and Books Inc. Palo Alto for hosting: June 8th, 5pm-6:30pm PDT, a virtual gathering hosted by Hilary King and Poetry…
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Support the Academy of American Poets
I’ve experienced firsthand the Academy’s unparalleled support of poets and their communities, and I’m deeply disheartened by the termination of their grant with the NEA as it puts at risk the vital work that they do. Poets have carried our nation through its most pivotal moments, and the Academy now needs and deserves our support…
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A Celebration of San Mateo County’s 5th Poet Laureate
The appointment of a new poet laureate is always a symbol of hope, a cause for celebration, and a call to action. I’ve known Tony for more than five years now, and I’m deeply honored to have been one of his community mentors. Antonio López, native son of East Palo Alto, dwells in that unique…
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Thank you, Amy, Katy, Jessica, & Mohamed
I got a glimpse of the thoughtful work the NEA was doing when my co-editors and I were in the process of advancing our Dear Human anthology, and again when I was invited to be an NEA panelist. Amy and Jessica were incredibly helpful in offering suggestions and useful resources, and their departure from the…
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Aileen Cassinetto 