Category: News
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Poetic Tuesdays
Join us for Poetic Tuesdays with Litquake on May 9th from 12:30-1:30pm at Yerba Buena Gardens! Sharing works that delight, provoke, inspire and rouse, the twice monthly Poetic Tuesdays series runs from May through August, turning lunchtime into an oasis of creative expression. Lighting up the Gardens with a fabulously curated line-up of poets and…
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Menlo Park Library’s Mental Health Open Mic
May is Mental Health Month and this year’s theme is #Share4MH. Join San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto in celebrating mental health and breaking the stigma against those with mental health issues. Share your poetry, story, music, resources, or just come to listen. All are welcome! MONDAY, MAY 1 at 6PMMENLO PARK LIBRARY,…
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4th Annual Filoli Haiku Contest
The hugely popular Filoli Haiku contest is now open for submissions! Over 4,000 haiku have been written about Filoli’s gardens since the competition was launched in 2020. In addition to 1st and 2nd place, there is a special category for poets below 18. This year also marks the 2nd Annual Filoli Ecopoetry Award to encourage…
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Americans for the Arts features Paloma Press author for National Poetry Month
Donor Story: Jeanne-Marie Osterman from Americans For The Arts on Vimeo. Paloma Press author Jeanne-Marie Osterman met with Americans for the Arts President & CEO Nolen Bivens at The Yale Club in New York City to discuss her recent poetry book, Shellback (Paloma Press, 2021). During the meeting, Osterman donated royalties from her book to…
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National Poetry Month at SFPL
San Francisco Poet Laureate emerita Kim Shuck facilitates a poetry reading honoring poets who have recently passed. Featured readers include Clyde Always, Mahnaz Badihian, Dan Brady, Aileen Cassinetto, Paul Corman-Roberts, Kitty Costello, Tongo Eisen-Martin and Lauren Ito. Kim Shuck remarks, “The last few years have seen a lot of loss. It’s not possible to mourn each and every voice, but we are going…
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Santelmo Issue 4
Happy World Poetry Day! Maraming salamat to Krip Yuson for including 3 of my poems in the stunning new issue of SANTELMO. Santelmo is a quarterly literary print journal published by Manila-based San Anselmo Publications, Inc.
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YBCA 100
Stunned and deeply honored to be selected for the 2023 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 100 Cultural Changemakers Award! The YBCA 100 celebrates artists, innovators, boundary-breakers, and leaders who are committed to building regenerative and equitable communities. Past honorees include Natalie Diaz, Ruby Ibarra, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Favianna Rodriguez, Beyoncé, Ali Wong, Greta Thunberg, Shonda…
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Dear Human
Forthcoming from Paloma Press in the Fall: Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States Co-Editors: Luisa A. Igloria20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia 2020-22, Emerita Aileen CassinettoPoet Laureate 2019-2022, Emerita, County of San Mateo, California Dr. Jeremy HoffmanDavid and Jane Cohn Scientist at the Science…
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KQED: Inform, Inspire, Involve
Started off this year’s KQED CAP Retreat on the right track: with a quote by bell hooks, “What We Do Is More Important Than What We Say We Believe”. (Thanks to Christine Padilla and Yo Ann Martinez for facilitating!) To this, I’m adding another favorite bell hooks quote: “The heart of justice is truth telling,…
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Books I loved and blurbed
Here are some of the books I’ve endorsed! It was a joy to thoroughly engage with these works. Please support the authors and publishers by buying these books. You can also request your local library to purchase a copy to add to their catalog. Thank you! Engkanto in the Diaspora by Eileen R. Tabios (University…
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