Category: Poet Laureate
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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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Poetry, please
And when we speaklet it be said that nothing is lostin translation. That our words are trueand tenable. That we understandthe meaning of “sii,” the Ohlone word for water,which is you. The Ohlone knew this.They were first of this county, borne of seawater andwoven reeds to salt marshes and pickleweedsand saltwater silvered by smelt.They fared…
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Poet Laureate Fellows
Very special thanks to Jen Benka for quoting my poem in her Letter in the Fall-Winter 2022 issue of American Poets! (My poem is part of the Laureate Fellows’ Collaborative Poem that is also featured in the issue.) This is bittersweet as Jen is transitioning out of her role as President & Executive Director of…
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Burlingame Youth Poet Laureate
The search for Burlingame’s first Youth Poet Laureate begins At first glance, the contest to become Burlingame and Hillsborough’s first Youth Poet Laureate (YPL) appears to be just another creative writing competition for teens. But in order to “win,” applicants must have more than poetic flair. “You don’t necessarily need to be good at poetry,”…
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KALW Public Radio
“To Want the Wide American Earth” by Aileen Cassinetto, KALW Public Radio (July 4, 2022)
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Farewell note
Dear community partners and friends, As my laureateship ends today, I wish to thank all of you for your incredible support over the last three and a half years. With your help, I was able to accomplish what I initially set out to do which was to make poetry more accessible and amplify its role…
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Skyline College’s Farewell to SMCPL
So much gratitude to Skyline College, the Skyline College Learning Communities, CIPHER, Puente and Kababayan for the amazing send-off last night. I couldn’t have asked for a more memorable way to end my laureateship! Out of caution, we limited the capacity and only had representatives from some of the organizations I worked with over the…
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Commendations
A great honor to receive these commendations from California State Senator Josh Becker, Assemblymember Kevin Mullin and the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors at the end of my term! (and an older one from U.S. Representative Anna G. Eshoo!)
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U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai reads “There are no kings in America”
Consul General James Heller and the staff of the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai read, “There are no kings in America,” in honor of Independence Day. Read the poem. As part of the 2022 Dear Poet project, students around the country and the world wrote letters to Aileen Cassinetto in response to her poem “There…
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