Category: News
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County Board Resolution
Board of Supervisors, County of San Mateo, State of California RESOLUTION TO EXTEND THE TERM OF AILEEN CASSINETTO TO THE HONORARY POST OF SAN MATEO COUNTY POET LAUREATE FOR AN ADDITIONAL YEAR FROM JANUARY 1, 2021 THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2021 RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the County of San Mateo, State of California,…
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Peninsula Virtual Bookfest
Message from San Mateo County Supervisor Carole Groom & Local Librarians: The Peninsula Virtual Bookfest brings together a diverse community of writers and book lovers, in a series of vital and inspiring readings and conversations during the months of September and October. Organized by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto, the virtual bookfest will…
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Project Read Foreword
Poetry at Maguire Facility I met a poet in jail with a tear tattooed under his eye, who introduced himself by way of a poem about the ocean and the morning air. This is perhaps how underlying narratives of incarceration are reclaimed by an expanse of grace. This was the space I occupied when I…
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Women’s Equality Day Celebration
San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto in collaboration with the San Mateo County Commission on the Status of Women, presents R.I.S.E. 2020: Women’s Equality Day Celebration, with poetry by SevanKelee Boult, Ina Cariño, Meera Dasgupta, Bethlehem Roberson (vocussionist), Kim Shuck, Tynea Smith & Angelique N. Zobitz, hosted by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen…
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Home Could Be Here
San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto and the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County present “Home Could Be Here,” the first countywide Youth Poetry, Art & Music Competition to raise awareness of Affordable Housing Month. May 7 at 6pm. Poetry:Ronit DasAshley LauAbigale Wee (1st place) Music:Carmelo AmezcuaBrianna Jacobs (1st place)Caroline Robbins Visual Art:Cielo…
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April 2020: National Poetry Month Workshops
With first graders from Portola Valley, April 27. Half Moon Bay High School students, April 28.
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Mental Health & Healing
“Menlo Park Library kicks off virtual events with Mental Health Open Mic on May 1,” InMenlo (April 2020) “Hear San Mateo Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto reading Love in the Time of COVID-19,” City of San Mateo (April 2020) “One of the most thoughtful gifts we can give is the gift of words,” San Mateo County…
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Love in the Time of COVID-19
A few days after the six Bay Area counties issued the mandate to shelter-in-place, neighbors mobilized to find ways to support each other. A few people started yard-based pantries stocked with food and other personal care items, others offered to run errands for the homebound, and there were those who gave away N95 masks and…
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April 2020: Pandemic Poetry
As 20% of the world’s population went under lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19 in March 2020, San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto sent out a call for poems on “sheltering.” By April 1st, 46 poets from across the US and around the world sent 90 poems, now archived in “MiGoZine: Poets on…
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Public Art at Belameda Park
San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto’s poem “Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate” is the newest public art installation at Belameda Park, Belmont.
Aileen Cassinetto 