Meet Me for Noche Buena in 2025
There’s something magical about hearing “Meet Me for Noche Buena” performed each holiday season. As its lyricist, I’m endlessly grateful to the choral groups who made this carol part of their holiday celebrations, and eager to hear In Medio bring Saunder Choi’s beautiful composition to life this year! At the Holidays Friday, December 197:00 PMAugustana…
Keep readingThe Nature of Our Times: December Events
With Good Reason features a new anthology of poems that gathers voices from science, the arts, and Indigenous communities to create a portrait of nature in America. Airing online and on public radio on Friday, December 5th. Join poets Philip Metres, John Dos Passos Coggin, Chad Knuth, Erin L. McCoy, Kyle Potvin, and Catherine Puma for a celebration of The Nature of Our…
Keep readingA Celebration of Filipinx Poets
Friday, November 219:55am-11:25am The 122nd Annual Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference, InterContinental San Francisco Contemporary Filipinx Poetry in the U.S.: Forging Connections to Our Languages and Histories “the first ever Filipino poetry event in the conference’s 122-year history” Chair: Luisa A. IgloriaPanelists: Aileen Cassinetto, Kabel Mishka Ligot, Karen Llagas, Michelle Peñaloza, Zosimo…
Keep readingThe Nature of Our Times: November Events
Zoom | Thursday | Nov 6 | 8pm EST Join Blue Convergence Fund for a reading featuring Emma Goldman-Sherman, Gabriela A. Igloria, Ed Meek, & Maya Zeff. Hosted by Emily Knight, with an introduction by Dr. Phillip Levin. Hybrid | Thursday | Nov 13 | 7pm EST Join Poets House for a reading featuring Kimberly Blaeser, Aileen…
Keep reading77th Frankfurt Book Fair
At the world’s largest gathering of ideas and rights negotiations, the Philippines stands bold and boundless as the 77th Frankfurt Book Fair/Frankfurter Buchmesse Guest of Honour. Paloma Press is honored to bring with us stories from the Filipino diaspora. Congratulations to all who made this possible. Padayon!
Keep readingClimate Summit at Stanford
At this year’s San Mateo County Climate Summit organized by Thrive, Nuestra Casa, Rise South City, and Climate Resilient Communities, and co-presented by the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, we are grateful to Thrive Alliance’s Georgia Farooq for generously providing space for our anthology, The Nature of Our Times. Paloma Press publisher and San Mateo…
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I’m honored to be opening the San Mateo County Climate Summit with a land acknowledgment, a brief introduction to The Nature of Our Times, and place-based poems. Looking forward to helping open the space with purpose and presence. Fourth Annual Climate Summit:Sustaining Community Power in Climate ActionStanford Redwood City CampusOctober 9, 2025, 8am to 5pm…
Keep readingFilipino American Lit Love for Filipino American History Month
The Halo-Halo Review is pleased to commemorate October as FILIPINO AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH with a unique look at diasporic history through the lens of poets Aileen Cassinetto and Eileen R. Tabios. In this wide-ranging conversation, they parse issues of migration, memory, imagination including mythologizing, Kapwa, and the poetics of language and becoming. Together, they present…
Keep readingThe Nature of Our Times Is Here!
We’ve officially released The Nature of Our Times! Huge thanks to David Hassler and Wick Poetry Center for organizing and hosting all the gatherings and launch events. Thank you so much to poets Barbara Sabol, Carrie George, Charlie Malone, Gabriela Igloria, Jeff Gundy, Jennifer Browne, Jessica Jones, Laura Grace Weldon, Neil Carpathios, Paula J. Lambert,…
Keep readingThe Nature of Our Times: Updates
Here are a few places where The Nature of Our Times has recently been featured: David Hassler, co-editor of The Nature of Our Times and Executive Director of Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, will be participating in a session hosted by Dr. Jane Lubchenco and Dr. Heather Tallis during Climate Week NYC, Sept 22, 9am-12pm, at the…
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