Category: News
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March 2021: Philippine Embassy’s International Women’s Day
The Embassy’s first ever “Panel Discussion with Filipino-American Women Writers” Hosted by the Philippine Embassy in Washington D.C. in honor of International Women’s Day Panelists: Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, Migs Bravo Dutt, Luisa A. Igloria, Gayle Romasanta Moderator: Aileen Cassinetto Watch it again. Read the press release.
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Burlingame Library’s Community Book to Action
Burlingame Public Library’s community Book to Action program “Burlingame Reads,” running March-July 2021, with support from California Center for the Book, and with Community Partners Citizens Environmental Council, Sustainable San Mateo County, Farming Hope, San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto, and Nethra Samarawickrema and Yuri Zaitsev of the Listening Lab, presents a series of…
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2nd Annual Filoli Haiku Contest
Haiku Reading at Filoli (special announcement of the Haiku Competition winners) Submit Your Haiku on Filoli’s Winter Garden! Entries due January 31 | Winner announced Feb 14 Filoli is pleased to bring back for a second year its Winter Garden Haiku Poetry Competition, open to all. Entrants may submit up to three original, previously unpublished…
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February 2021: Poetry Out Loud
THIRD ANNUAL SAN MATEO COUNTY POETRY OUT LOUD COMPETITION “Igniting student potential through the power of poetry” Come and watch inspiring students from various San Mateo County schools compete in the Third Annual San Mateo County Poetry Out Loud Competition on Thursday, February 11th, from 7-9 pm Via Zoom Webinar! Register for this FREE Event…
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I Have a Dream youth anthology
“Woodland School first graders contribute poem to San Mateo County anthology,” InMenlo (January 26, 2021) “The Next Gen,” Cultural Weekly (January 20, 2021) Update: The anthology is out of print but accessible online here.
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Daly City Youth Poet Laureate
“City Launches Youth Poet Laureate Program, First Of Its Kind In San Mateo County,” SF Gate (January 15, 2021) “San Mateo County’s poet laureate Aileen Cassinetto said Daly City’s youth program “amplifies the role of youth in the community and the power of the literary arts in inspiring civic engagement.” “I see the Youth Poet…
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Youth Inaugural Poems Anthology
I Have a Dream: Inaugural Poems for a New Generation is an anthology I co-edited with Jim Ward featuring the work of 115 students age 6 to 16. It was released on January 9, 2021, nine days before MLK Day and 11 days before Inauguration, with support from the San Mateo County Arts Commission and…
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SMCPL 2021 Calendar
December 27, 2021, 3pmOur Voice with Ray Tyler, via Zoom December 18, 2021, 1pmMarias at Sampaguitas Issue Launch & Reading December 14, 2021, 4pm Peninsula Family Service & Daly City Library & Recreation Services’ 2nd Annual Virtual Holiday Celebration Join us Tuesday December 14 from 4pm – 5pm for our Holiday Celebration on Zoom! Spoken…
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Daly City Youth Poetry Workshops
Learn to write an occasional poem with San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto! 12/2 and 12/9 at 5pm, hosted by the Daly City Public Library Associates (DCPLA) with a reading by Oakland youth poet Siara Edmond. To sign up, please email info@dcpla.org.
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Re-EnVISIONing Our Future Together
San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto and Skyline College collaborate to present a reading and panel discussion, Re-EnVISIONing Our Future Together, that hopes “to find clarity and to imagine a future that celebrates both our commonalities and our differences.” The event will feature Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa A. Igloria and former San Antonio Poet…
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