Tag: poet laureate
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Climate 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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Support the Academy of American Poets
I’ve experienced firsthand the Academy’s unparalleled support of poets and their communities, and I’m deeply disheartened by the termination of their grant with the NEA as it puts at risk the vital work that they do. Poets have carried our nation through its most pivotal moments, and the Academy now needs and deserves our support…
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KTVU Spotlight
Thank you for the Women’s History Month shoutout, KTVU! *KTVU (channel 2) is a television station licensed to Oakland, California, serving the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Filoli celebrates haiku contest’s 5th anniversary!
Submit your best haiku inspired by Filoli’s spring Garden! DEADLINE IS APRIL 14TH. To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the contest, we are inviting work that highlights nature’s many generosities and the role it plays as a place for contemplation, joy, and healing. Please share your own personal and communal stories around Filoli’s Garden and…
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Poem Jam With Kim Shuck
San Francisco Poet Laureate Emerita Kim Shuck invites poets to read at SFPL’s monthly poetry reading. With Jennifer Barone, Aileen Cassinetto, Cassandra Dallett, Christine No, and Kelechi Ubozoh Thursday, March 13th, 6:00 – 7:15pmLatino/Hispanic Meeting Room B, Main Library100 Larkin Street, San Francisco415-557-4400 | generalcollections@sfpl.org
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South City welcomes CA Poet Laureate
Celebrate California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and California Youth Poet Laureate Chloe Chou in the South San Francisco City Council Chambers on January 25, 2025 at 6pm. This event will feature poetry readings, a solo jazz performance by renowned saxophonist Francis Wong, and a Q&A session. Lee Herrick’s new book In Praise of Late Wonder:…
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San Mateo County celebrates bridge-builders
From the San Mateo County Office of Community Affairs:In honor of Immigrant Heritage Month, we are celebrating bridge-builders—leaders whose work uplifts immigrant communities and supports immigrant inclusion. Meet Aileen Cassinetto: “I’m a first generation immigrant, and also the daughter and granddaughter of first generation immigrants from the Philippines. I was appointed San Mateo County Poet…
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5th Annual Filoli Haiku Contest
From Filoli: We are thrilled to announce the four winners of this year’s Haiku Contest! Each of the following poems was selected by judge and San Mateo Poet Laureate Emerita Aileen Cassinetto from among over 400 individual haiku poems submitted this year. We invite you to see these poems displayed throughout the Garden! Also check…
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Poetry, youth, & the creative mind
The Academy of American Poets is the biggest supporter of the work that poets laureate do. My San Mateo County Youth Ecopoetry Project (2021-22) was fully funded by them and allowed me to work with and mentor some of the Bay Area’s finest young poets: CASSANDRA BOUSQUET (2024 Birss Fellow, Roger Williams University’s Poetry Walk…
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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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