Category: News
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Poetry Out Loud 2025
Congratulations to Washington State champion of Poetry Out Loud Sydney Frost who rose “to the top from a field of over 8,000 students from 37 schools” statewide, and who will head to the Poetry Out Loud National Finals in Washington, D.C. on May 6-7. Sydney chose “Siren Song” by Margaret Atwood, “There are no kings…
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Make It Main Street
Make It Main Street Celebrates APA! Featuring Eth-Noh-Tech storytellers, J-Town Ukes, Taiko Drumming with Kristy Aki Oshio, LionDanceME Chinese Lion Dancers, Wesley Ueunten, sanshin player, Komo Gauvreau origami teacher, Jennifer Clark teaching koinobori windsocks, Keiko Kubo teaching ikebana, and poets Aileen Cassinetto & Mia Ayumi Malhotra, with former Mayor Naomi Patridge. Thursday, May 1st3-7pmMac Dutra…
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Vision board with us!
Teen Makers: Frame Your FutureDate: 05/19/2025 5:30 PM – 6:30 PMLocation: Makerspace, Downtown Library1044 Middlefield Road, Redwood CityFacilitators: Aileen Cassinetto and Amani Shroff, Commissioners on the Status of Women for San Mateo County***All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your favorite photos, keepsakes, and a healthy dose of imagination to personalize your…
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KTVU Spotlight
Thank you for the Women’s History Month shoutout, KTVU! *KTVU (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Oakland, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.
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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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