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Call for Submissions on the Nature of Our Times
THE NATURE OF OUR TIMES: POEMS ON AMERICA’S LANDS, WATERS, WILDLIFE, AND OTHER NATURAL WONDERS A companion to the First National Nature Assessment (NNA1) Forthcoming, Fall 2025 from Paloma Press, in collaboration with Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and Poets for Science Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler (Editors) BACKGROUND Partly inspired…
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San Mateo County celebrates bridge-builders
From the San Mateo County Office of Community Affairs:In honor of Immigrant Heritage Month, we are celebrating bridge-builders—leaders whose work uplifts immigrant communities and supports immigrant inclusion. Meet Aileen Cassinetto: “I’m a first generation immigrant, and also the daughter and granddaughter of first generation immigrants from the Philippines. I was appointed San Mateo County Poet…
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Everybody’s Climate
EVERYBODY’S CLIMATE 2024: July 6-July 31 Sunday, 7/21/20241:00 – 3:00San Francisco Main LibraryLatino/Hispanic Meeting Room100 Larkin St SFLight refreshments and free copies of Dear Human at the Edge of Time to in-person attendees while supplies last! Aileen Cassinetto, Marisa Lin and Kim Shuck will be reading poems from the new anthology Dear Human at the Edge of…
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5th Annual Filoli Haiku Contest
From Filoli: We are thrilled to announce the four winners of this year’s Haiku Contest! Each of the following poems was selected by judge and San Mateo Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto from among over 400 individual haiku poems submitted this year. We invite you to see these poems displayed throughout the Garden! Also check…
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Poetry, youth, & the creative mind
The Academy of American Poets is the biggest supporter of the work that poets laureate do. My San Mateo County Youth Ecopoetry Project (2021-22) was fully funded by them and allowed me to work with and mentor some of the Bay Area’s finest young poets: CASSANDRA BOUSQUET (2024 Birss Fellow, Roger Williams University’s Poetry Walk…
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Earth Week at Skyline College
Skyline College Celebrates Earth Week with Dear Human Featured speaker: San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto April 23, 2024, 1:30PM, Building 5 *De-stress walk & campus clean-up at 10:30am, trash bags and gloves for collecting waste will be provided Read the post-event article here.
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Dear Human at Future’s Edge: Science, Creativity and Climate Futures Conference
Please save the date! Dear Human at Future’s Edge: Science, Creativity and Climate Futures ConferenceTuesday, April 16, 20241pm-5:30pm Pacific (Reception at 4:30pm)Banatao Auditorium, 310 Sutardja Dai Hall, UC BerkeleyFree & open to the public, but registration is requested. Sponsor(s): Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative, Center for Interdisciplinary Critical…
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National Poetry Month 2024
Library staff’s Poetry to Read for National Poetry Month 2024 Thursday, April 4, 5:30pm-7pm CREATIVITEA OPEN MIC Presented by Stir Fry Stories and Chopsticks Alley CZI Community Space801 Jefferson Avenue Redwood CityA multidisciplinary showcase for Asian American Pacific Islander musicians, singers, writers, poets/spoken word artists, and visual artists who live and/or work in San Mateo…
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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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