Tag: Peninsula Library System
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National Poetry Month 2025
Poets & Their DarlingsBurlingame Public LibraryApril 5, 1pm Join us for our annual National Poetry Month celebration! This poetry reading for adults and teens will feature poets from our 2024/2025 poetry programs and youth poet laureate candidates. Poets will share original work alongside poems from their poetry idols. Come and support our local community of…
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Earth Week at Skyline College
Skyline College Celebrates Earth Week with Dear Human Featured speaker: San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto April 23, 2024, 1:30PM, Building 5 *De-stress walk & campus clean-up at 10:30am, trash bags and gloves for collecting waste will be provided Read the post-event article here.
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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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Youth Cultural Ambassadors
In 2022, as I was wrapping up my laureateship, I proposed a county pilot program to celebrate the work of youth poets and artists. Between July 2023 and June 2024, I directed the San Mateo County Youth Cultural Ambassadors pilot program that was officially launched by the San Mateo County Office of Arts and Culture…
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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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Menlo Park Library’s Mental Health Open Mic
May is Mental Health Month and this year’s theme is #Share4MH. Join San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto in celebrating mental health and breaking the stigma against those with mental health issues. Share your poetry, story, music, resources, or just come to listen. All are welcome! MONDAY, MAY 1 at 6PMMENLO PARK LIBRARY,…
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Books I loved and blurbed
Here are some of the books I’ve endorsed! It was a joy to thoroughly engage with these works. Please support the authors and publishers by buying these books. You can also request your local library to purchase a copy to add to their catalog. Thank you! Engkanto in the Diaspora by Eileen R. Tabios (University…
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Walking Into 2023
Thank you, 2022, for all the lessons and milestones! I’m honored to have been part of this year’s events and programs, and grateful to everyone who helped make them happen: I’m looking forward to working on these forthcoming projects in 2023, and especially welcome the friendships they will bring: I am so very grateful for…
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Youth Poetry Workshop
Students grades 5 through 12, join us for a fun poetry workshop on Wednesday, December 14, 5-6pm Pacific. Facilitated by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto and Daly City Youth Poet Laureate Chloe Chou, hosted by the Daly City Public Library Associates. Via Zoom.
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