Category: News
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Op-Ed, “Against hate”
My op-ed in today’s San Mateo Daily Journal, with gratitude to editor Jon Mays for publishing it and for his patience through all the revisions. It’s a very short piece, but I wanted to be sure it had clarity, accuracy, and heart. Love is sometimes a hard ask, but peace—we can all agree that it…
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There are no kings in America
“There are no kings in America” was first presented at the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors Meeting on July 9, 2019 in keeping with the poet laureate’s duty to open quarterly sessions with an original poem. It has since been published in Vox Populi (2020), poets.org (2022), and Poetry Foundation (2023). In 2022, it…
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First Youth Cultural Ambassadors on a Mission: Bringing Art, Poetry to the Community
I campaigned for this program when I was poet laureate, and now I’m so honored to lead it for San Mateo County! Thank you so much to the County Executive’s Office, especially Office of Arts and Culture Executive Director Robin Rodricks for their support. On a personal note, today is bittersweet as it is Robin’s…
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Poetry Out Loud
“There are no kings in America” will be included in Poetry Out Loud‘s roster of poems and will also be featured in the Poetry Foundation website. Poetry Out Loud® lifts poetry off the page, creating community and connection. Through this program, high school students across the country participate in a dynamic poetry recitation competition that…
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The Poetry of Food
Stories in Bloom at Filoli with poets Kim Shuck, Aileen Cassinetto, Lourdes Figueroa, Greer Nakadegawa-Lee, and Alie Jones. August 26, Saturday, at 12pm.
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The Beat Museum
Please join us as we celebrate the San Francisco launch of Brian Sonia-Wallace’s 3rd book, Maze Mouth (Moontide Press, 2023), August 5th, at The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, at 7pm. Brian Sonia-Wallace is a queer, bilingual poet and cultural worker interested in themes of intimacy, service, debt, queerness, grief, authorship, memory, and transcendence. He is…
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Celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month
June 29th at 6pm: Join the County of San Mateo Office of Community Affairs and Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto for a panel celebrating Immigrant Heritage Month. We are excited to hear from immigrant students and children of immigrants, student leaders from Skyline College’s DREAM Center and Princeton Prize in Race Relations honorees. Panelists include…
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Wide American Earth at Carnegie Hall
World Premiere Of Filipino Immigrant Song At Carnegie Hall This Summer Filipino immigrant stories along with other Asian and Pacific Islander legacies will be celebrated through song at Carnegie Hall on June 10, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. Produced by National Concerts, this historic collaboration by API composers, choral ensembles, community elders, culture bearers, and cultural…
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Wildflowers book launch
Join us in celebrating the launch of Beverly Parayno’s debut short story collection, WILDFLOWERS (PAWA Press) on Saturday, May 27 at 2.30 pm (doors at 2). Sentro Filipino, SF. Guest readers include Tamim Ansary, Tony Robles, Olga Zilbourborg, Rashaan Alexis Meneses, Veronica Montes, and Aileen Cassinetto. Pre-order with free shipping and a signed copy available…
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Congratulations, Lauren & Eva!
Huge congratulations to my mentees, Lauren Lin and Eva Chen! Lauren Lin is the Inaugural Burlingame-Hillsborough Youth Poet Laureate! Lauren who also won Youth Speaks’ Teen Poetry Slam Finals will represent the SF Bay Area at the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival this summer! Eva Chen is the first student from San…
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