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National Poetry Month 2024
Thursday, April 4, 5:30pm-7pm CREATIVITEA OPEN MIC Presented by Stir Fry Stories and Chopsticks Alley CZI Community Space801 Jefferson Avenue Redwood CityA multidisciplinary showcase for Asian American Pacific Islander musicians, singers, writers, poets/spoken word artists, and visual artists who live and/or work in San Mateo County – from high schoolers to elders, from seasoned creatives…
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Dear Human at the Edge of Time
DEAR HUMAN AT THE EDGE OF TIME: POEMS ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES (Paloma Press, 2023) is a companion to the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5), and was created out of the need to tell our human stories alongside the science of the NCA5. Edited by 2021 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows…
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Meet me for Noche Buena in 2023
Meet Me for Noche Buena is being performed in three cities this Christmas! 2023 OREGON CHORALE“Christmas with the Chorale“December 2 & 3, 2023 MUSICA INTIMA (Vancouver)“In Winter’s House“December 9, 2023 PHOENIX CHORALE“A Chorale Christmas”December 15-18, 2023 This concert is on Arizona PBS!
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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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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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There are no kings in America
So much gratitude to the Academy of American Poets for featuring my poem, “There are no kings in America,” in their July 2023 newsletter. Read the letters written by high school students in response to this poem as part of Dear Poet 2022. View the recording made by the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai for…
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6/29/23: 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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6/10/23: 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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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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World premiere of “Meet Me for Noche Buena”
Meet Me for Noche Buena (2022) Saunder Choi (b. 1988) TEXT: AILEEN CASSINETTO Maria Cristina Navarro, soloist WORLD PREMIERE COMMISSIONED BY PACIFIC CHORALE Robert Istad conducts the world premiere of the Pacific Chorale-commissioned “Meet Me for Noche Buena” by noted LA-based Filipino composer Saunder Choi, a tenor in the chorus whose work has been described…