Category: News
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Filoli’s Vegetable Garden
Today I facilitated a Vegetable Garden Activity at Filoli! I created short prompts and invited families and kids to walk around and write down words that inspired them. I then helped the kids turn their words into a poem. Here’s the template and sample poems created by the participants: VEGETABLE GARDEN FIELD NOTES Activity: Describe…
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Borrowed Tongue
August 27, 2022, 7pmBorrowed Tongue: New Writings From Filipinx and Latinx Poets Language, commerce and colonial history once connected the world’s original global cities of Manila, Madrid and Mexico City. This reading explores how poets in the Filipinx and Latinx diasporas refigure identity and rediscover kinship in a multicultural and postcolonial world. Featuring poets Josiah…
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Women’s Equality Day op-ed
“How to be radical on Women’s Equality Day,” The San Mateo Daily Journal (August 23, 2022)
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Poetry in the Community
August 8, 2022, 6pm STATE OF THE NATION: POETRY IN THE COMMUNITY Eight poets laureate based in different cities around the country talk about how they represent their communities in writing, and how poets are also community organizers and activists.
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Skyline College’s Farewell to SMCPL
So much gratitude to Skyline College, the Skyline College Learning Communities, CIPHER, Puente and Kababayan for the amazing send-off last night. I couldn’t have asked for a more memorable way to end my laureateship! Out of caution, we limited the capacity and only had representatives from some of the organizations I worked with over the…
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Farewell note
Dear community partners and friends, As my laureateship ends today, I wish to thank everyone for the incredible support over the last three and a half years. With your help, I was able to accomplish what I initially set out to do which was to make poetry more accessible and amplify its role in the…
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Commendations
A great honor to receive these commendations from U.S. Representative Anna G. Eshoo, California State Senator Josh Becker, Assemblymember Kevin Mullin and the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors! In her letter Congresswoman Eshoo writes, “This accomplishment is an eloquent statement about your beautiful poetry and your commitment to improving your community… To honor you…
Aileen Cassinetto 