The State of Water at Skyline College
Skyline College warmly invites the public to join a hands-on poetry workshop facilitated by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto exploring how bodies of water connect across borders, communities, and cultures, and how art can help us see those connections in new ways. Using state statutes and treaty language and our own experiences,…
Keep readingThe Nature of Our Times: February & March
Join us for an in-person reading hosted by Kresge College UCSC in collaboration with Santa Cruz County Poet Laureate Emerita Farnaz Fatermi, Feb 25th at 7pm PST, featuring Aileen Cassinetto, Lucian Mattison, Laurel Maxwell, and Maya Zeff. Join us for a virtual reading hosted by Emily Knight and the Blue Convergence Fund, March 16th at…
Keep readingThank you, DMQ Review & LAdige
Grateful to be included in the latest issue of DMQ Review, with special thanks to Sally Ashton for the invitation to take part in the Virtual Salon. Watch Tshaka Campbell, Dean Rader, and me read from our new books, check out new work by Lisa Rosenberg and others, and Editor’s Remarks by Sally Ashton. Many…
Keep readingMeet 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…
Keep readingClimate Summit SMC
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…
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