Tag: ecologies
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National Poetry Month 2024
Library staff’s Poetry to Read for 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…
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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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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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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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Americans for the Arts features San Mateo County Youth Ecopoetry Project
The Fall/Winter 2022 issue of Arts Link magazine by Americans for the Arts features the San Mateo County Youth Ecopoetry Project, along with 55 other projects at the intersection of the arts and climate change. Linda Lombardi, Managing Editor, writes, “From rising seas to hurricanes to fires, climate change impacts every corner of the world…
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Call for Submissions: A Call for Poems on Climate Change in the United States
DEAR HUMAN AT THE EDGE OF TIME: POEMS ON CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE UNITED STATES 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 Museum of Virginia; 2021 Fellow of the…
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Filoli’s Vegetable Garden
Today I facilitated a Vegetable Garden Activity at Filoli! I created short prompts and invited families and kids to walk around and write down words that inspired them. I then helped the kids turn their words into a poem. Here’s the template and sample poems created by the participants: VEGETABLE GARDEN FIELD NOTES Activity: Describe…
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Farewell note
Dear community partners and friends, As my laureateship ends today, I wish to thank everyone for the 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 in the…
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Poetry San Jose
June 14, 2022, 7pm Please join us via Zoom for Poetry Center San José & Works/San José’s Well-RED series, June 14 at 7pm!
Aileen Cassinetto 