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Americans for the Arts features Paloma Press author for National Poetry Month
Donor Story: Jeanne-Marie Osterman from Americans For The Arts on Vimeo. Paloma Press author Jeanne-Marie Osterman met with Americans for the Arts President & CEO Nolen Bivens at The Yale Club in New York City to discuss her recent poetry book, Shellback (Paloma Press, 2021). During the meeting, Osterman donated royalties from her book to…
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National Poetry Month at SFPL
San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck facilitates a poetry reading honoring poets who have recently passed. Featured readers include Clyde Always, Mahnaz Badihian, Dan Brady, Aileen Cassinetto, Paul Corman-Roberts, Kitty Costello, Tongo Eisen-Martin and Lauren Ito. Kim Shuck remarks, “The last few years have seen a lot of loss. It’s not possible to mourn each and every voice, but we are going…
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Santelmo Issue 4
Happy World Poetry Day! Maraming salamat to Krip Yuson for including 3 of my poems in the stunning new issue of SANTELMO. Santelmo is a quarterly literary print journal published by Manila-based San Anselmo Publications, Inc.
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YBCA 100
Stunned and deeply honored to be selected for the 2023 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100 Award! The YBCA 100 celebrates artists, innovators, boundary-breakers, and leaders who are committed to building regenerative and equitable communities. Past honorees include Natalie Diaz, Ruby Ibarra, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Favianna Rodriguez, Beyoncé, Ali Wong, Greta Thunberg, Shonda Rhimes, Viet…
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Dear Human
Forthcoming from Paloma Press in the Fall: Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States Co-Editors: Luisa A. Igloria20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia 2020-22, Emerita Aileen CassinettoPoet Laureate 2019-2022, Emerita, County of San Mateo, California Dr. Jeremy HoffmanDavid and Jane Cohn Scientist at the Science…
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KQED: Inform, Inspire, Involve
Started off this year’s KQED CAP Retreat on the right track: with a quote by bell hooks, “What We Do Is More Important Than What We Say We Believe”. (Thanks to Christine Padilla and Yo Ann Martinez for facilitating!) To this, I’m adding another favorite bell hooks quote: “The heart of justice is truth telling,…
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Books I loved and blurbed
Here are some of the books I’ve endorsed! It was a joy to thoroughly engage with these works. Please support the authors and publishers by buying these books. You can also request your local library to purchase a copy to add to their catalog. Thank you! Engkanto in the Diaspora by Eileen R. Tabios (University…
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World Premiere: “Wide American Earth” at Carnegie Hall
Saturday, 10 June 2023, 8pm Eastern World Premiere of Filipino Immigrant Song at Carnegie Hall This Summer Filipino immigrant stories along with other Asian and Pacific Islander legacies will be celebrated through song at Carnegie Hall on June 10, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. Produced by National Concerts, this historic collaboration by API composers, choral ensembles,…
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KALW Bay Poets
KALW Public Radio features my poem, Dust, today at 7:19am and 3:48pm, and on Saturday Feb 4, 2023, at 6:04am. Also streamed are Saunder Choi’s More Waters Rising (intro music) and Zosimo Quibilan’s Pahinga (closing). The Bay Poets segment is produced and hosted by veteran local poet Josiah Luis Alderete, who is also the co-owner…
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RISE 2022 Women’s Leadership Conference
Video archive of RISE 2022 Women’s Leadership Conference. Included in the program is Pop Up Poetry featuring Pacifica poet Dina Klarisse, East Palo Alto poet Keiki Leni Ward, and Alameda County Youth Poet Laureate Zoe Dorado, hosted by Commissioner Aileen Cassinetto.
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