Category: News
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World Premiere of “Balikbayan”
On Friday, October 25th at 7:30pm, Filipino-American mezzo-soprano Carmen Edano and Lisa Sylvester will premiere the new art song “Balikbayan” (my third collaboration with 2024 Raymond W. Brock Prize winner Saunder Choi!) at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music as part of the Prima Voce Emerging Artists series. Tickets are available here. From Saunder Choi: “Balikbayan”…
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CLMP’s reading list
“An Immigrant’s Guide to Navigating Borders & Bodies of Water” is featured in the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’ Reading List for Filipino American History Month 2024! From CLMP: Join us in celebrating #FilipinoAmericanHistoryMonth! Pick several reads from an indie press or lit mag on this year’s reading list (and don’t forget to bookmark…
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An Evening With Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, Diane Seuss, and Martha Silano
The New England Poetry Club is hosting “An Evening with Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, Diane Seuss, and Martha Silano” on November 11th, Monday, at 4pm PT/7pm ET on Zoom. The reading will feature poems from Dear Human at the Edge of Time, and new books by Luisa A. Igloria and Martha Silano. The event…
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FilBookFest 2024
Leading the Way: Filipinx in Publishing, Bookselling & Literary Organizations Saturday, October 12, 4:00 – 5:00 pm FilBookFest rounds out the first day with a powerhouse panel of Filipinx leaders and trailblazers in the world of publishing, bookselling, and literary & arts organizations. Panelists: Jason Bayani/Kearney Street Workshop; Jhoanna Belfer/Bel Canto; Lily Prijoles/Arkipelago Books; Edwin…
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Soul Bone Lit Fest
Reading and Q&A: What Does EcoPoetry Bring to the Table? In this reading, presentation, and Q&A poets and authors Kim Shuck, Denise Low, and Aileen Cassinetto talk about EcoPoetry today. Thursday, August 29 · 12:30 – 2:30pm PDT
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Call for Submissions on the Nature of Our Times
THE NATURE OF OUR TIMES: POEMS ON AMERICA’S LANDS, WATERS, WILDLIFE, AND OTHER NATURAL WONDERS A companion to the First National Nature Assessment (NNA1) Forthcoming, Fall 2025 from Paloma Press, in collaboration with Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University and Poets for Science Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler (Editors) BACKGROUND Partly inspired…
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San Mateo County celebrates bridge-builders
From the San Mateo County Office of Community Affairs:In honor of Immigrant Heritage Month, we are celebrating bridge-builders—leaders whose work uplifts immigrant communities and supports immigrant inclusion. Meet Aileen Cassinetto: “I’m a first generation immigrant, and also the daughter and granddaughter of first generation immigrants from the Philippines. I was appointed San Mateo County Poet…
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Everybody’s Climate
EVERYBODY’S CLIMATE 2024: July 6-July 31 Sunday, 7/21/20241:00 – 3:00San Francisco Main LibraryLatino/Hispanic Meeting Room100 Larkin St SFLight refreshments and free copies of Dear Human at the Edge of Time to in-person attendees while supplies last! Aileen Cassinetto, Marisa Lin and Kim Shuck will be reading poems from the new anthology Dear Human at the Edge of…
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5th Annual Filoli Haiku Contest
From Filoli: We are thrilled to announce the four winners of this year’s Haiku Contest! Each of the following poems was selected by judge and San Mateo Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto from among over 400 individual haiku poems submitted this year. We invite you to see these poems displayed throughout the Garden! Also check…
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Poetry, youth, & the creative mind
The Academy of American Poets is the biggest supporter of the work that poets laureate do. My San Mateo County Youth Ecopoetry Project (2021-22) was fully funded by them and allowed me to work with and mentor some of the Bay Area’s finest young poets: CASSANDRA BOUSQUET (2024 Birss Fellow, Roger Williams University’s Poetry Walk…
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