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Dear Human at the Edge of Time
DEAR HUMAN AT THE EDGE OF TIME: POEMS ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES (Paloma Press, 2023) is a companion to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), and was created out of the need to tell our human stories alongside the science of the NCA5. Edited by 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows…
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Youth Cultural Ambassadors
In 2022, as I was wrapping up my laureateship, I proposed a county pilot program to celebrate the work of youth poets and artists. Between July 2023 and June 2024, I directed the San Mateo County Youth Cultural Ambassadors pilot program that was officially launched by the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture…
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Meet Me for Noche Buena in 2023
Meet Me for Noche Buena is being performed in three cities this Christmas! 2023 OREGON CHORALE“Christmas with the Chorale“December 2 & 3, 2023 MUSICA INTIMA (Vancouver)“In Winter’s House“December 9, 2023 PHOENIX CHORALE“A Chorale Christmas”December 15-18, 2023 This concert is on Arizona PBS!
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Op-Ed, “Against hate”
My op-ed in today’s San Mateo Daily Journal, with gratitude to editor Jon Mays for publishing it and for his patience through all the revisions. It’s a very short piece, but I wanted to be sure it had clarity, accuracy, and heart. Love is sometimes a hard ask, but peace—we can all agree that it…
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There are no kings in America
“There are no kings in America” was first presented at the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Meeting on July 9, 2019 in keeping with the poet laureate’s duty to open quarterly sessions with an original poem. It has since been published in Vox Populi (2020), poets.org (2022), and Poetry Foundation (2023). In 2022, it…
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First Youth Cultural Ambassadors on a Mission: Bringing Art, Poetry to the Community
I campaigned for this program when I was poet laureate, and now I’m so honored to lead it for San Mateo County! Thank you so much to the County Executive’s Office, especially Office of Arts and Culture Executive Director Robin Rodricks for their support. On a personal note, today is bittersweet as it is Robin’s…
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Poetry Out Loud
“There are no kings in America” will be included in Poetry Out Loud‘s roster of poems and will also be featured in the Poetry Foundation website. Poetry Out Loud® lifts poetry off the page, creating community and connection. Through this program, high school students across the country participate in a dynamic poetry recitation competition that…
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The Poetry of Food
Stories in Bloom at Filoli with poets Kim Shuck, Aileen Cassinetto, Lourdes Figueroa, Greer Nakadegawa-Lee, and Alie Jones. August 26, Saturday, at 12pm.
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The Beat Museum
Please join us as we celebrate the San Francisco launch of Brian Sonia-Wallace’s 3rd book, Maze Mouth (Moontide Press, 2023), August 5th, at The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, at 7pm. Brian Sonia-Wallace is a queer, bilingual poet and cultural worker interested in themes of intimacy, service, debt, queerness, grief, authorship, memory, and transcendence. He is…
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Celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month
June 29th at 6pm: Join the County of San Mateo Office of Community Affairs and Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto for a panel celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month. We are excited to hear from immigrant students and children of immigrants, student leaders from Skyline College’s DREAM Center and Princeton Prize in Race Relations honorees. Panelists include…
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