Category: News
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Filoli celebrates haiku contest’s 5th anniversary!
Submit your best haiku inspired by Filoli’s spring Garden! DEADLINE IS APRIL 14TH. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the contest, we are inviting work that highlights nature’s many generosities and the role it plays as a place for contemplation, joy, and healing. Please share your own personal and communal stories around Filoli’s Garden and…
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National Poetry Month 2025
Poets & Their DarlingsBurlingame Public LibraryApril 5, 1pm Join us for our annual National Poetry Month celebration! This poetry reading for adults and teens will feature poets from our 2024/2025 poetry programs and youth poet laureate candidates. Poets will share original work alongside poems from their poetry idols. Come and support our local community of…
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Poem Jam With Kim Shuck
San Francisco Poet Laureate Emerita Kim Shuck invites poets to read at SFPL’s monthly poetry reading. With Jennifer Barone, Aileen Cassinetto, Cassandra Dallett, Christine No, and Kelechi Ubozoh Thursday, March 13th, 6:00 – 7:15pmLatino/Hispanic Meeting Room B, Main Library100 Larkin Street, San Francisco415-557-4400 | generalcollections@sfpl.org
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The Balikbayan Artist and Other Chismis in the Filipino Diaspora
Join us for a book party to celebrate the U.S. launch of Eileen R. Tabios’ The Balikbayan Artist hosted by Peninsula Books with PAWA & friends: Edwin Lozada, Beverly Parayno, Dina Klarisse, Aileen Cassinetto, & Melinda Luisa de Jesús Saturday, March 15th6-7:30pmRSVP: Peninsula Books441 Westlake Center, Daly City Panelist bios: Eileen R. Tabios loves books and…
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The Nature of Our Times: A Message from the Editors
The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders was originally envisioned to be a companion to the first ever U.S. National Nature Assessment (NNA1). We have recently learned that the U.S. Global Change Research Program has been ordered to discontinue their work on the National Nature Assessment. However, the…
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The Brilliant Poetry Prize
So happy and grateful that my poem “Imagine” won 2nd prize in the world’s first ever Brilliant Poetry competition, judged by Dava Sobel! Congratulations to 1st prize winner Kathryn Spratt (“Impressions”) and 3rd prize winner Sangeetha Balakrishnan (“The Valency of Blue”)! Brilliant Poetry is an initiative of Dr Sam Illingworth, award-winning researcher in science communication…
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South City welcomes CA Poet Laureate
Celebrate California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and California Youth Poet Laureate Chloe Chou in the South San Francisco City Council Chambers on January 25, 2025 at 6pm. This event will feature poetry readings, a solo jazz performance by renowned saxophonist Francis Wong, and a Q&A session. Lee Herrick’s new book In Praise of Late Wonder:…
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Brilliant Poetry Reading
Celebrate the beauty of science and discovery through the power of poetry! Join us for the inaugural reading of The Brilliant Poetry competition, featuring ten remarkable poets from around the world who explore scientific wonder in verse. This inspiring event highlights how poetry can illuminate the wonders of scientific exploration and our shared human curiosity.…
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Meet Me for Noche Buena in 2024
Meet Me for Noche BuenaMusic by Saunder ChoiText by Aileen Cassinetto “Meet Me for Noche Buena” continues to be part of our holiday traditions and will be coming to the Bay Area and New York for the first time next month! It will be part of LALÒ ensemble‘s “Panunuluyan”, the Peninsula Women’s Chorus‘ “Cultivating Hope”,…
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Let Me Call You Sweetheart
I’m grateful to the editors of Consequence for publishing my poem “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” which will be read by José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes along with his piece “Letter to Topeka” at the Boston City Hall Civic Pavilion on November 12th, at 7pm EST. The event will be both in person and livestreamed. “Let…
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