"The Future Is Poetry" is a filmed roundtable co-produced by Aileen Cassinetto and Midpen Media Center as part of Cassinetto's San Mateo County Youth Ecopoetry Project supported by The Academy of American Poets, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the County of San Mateo. This project was also one of 56 initiatives at the intersection of arts and the climate crisis across the United States that was highlighted by Americans for the Arts in the fall/winter 2022 edition of Arts Link magazine.
With gratitude to the following students for their participation:
Cassandra Bousquet
Angela Chen
Eva Chen
Chloe Chou
Bellamy Cramer
Ronit Das
Arda Inegol
Samantha Ishikawa
Maya Kornyeyeva
Iris Li
Caroline Lim
Lauren Lin
Juleen Grace Mallari
Jescent Marcelino
Allen Mata
Hanna Pham
Emma Roginsky
Marissa Teng
Keiki Leni Ward
Payton Zolck
With gratitude to the following organizations for their support:
The County Of San Mateo Board of Supervisors
The Office of Congresswoman Anna Eshoo
City Councils of San Mateo County
Burlingame Public Library
Daly City Public Library
Filoli Historic House & Garden
Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County
Menlo Park Public Library
Peninsula Library System
Redwood City Public Library
San Mateo County Commission on the Status of Women
San Mateo County Libraries
San Mateo County Office of Arts & Culture
San Mateo County Office of Community Affairs
San Mateo County Office of Education
San Mateo County Youth Climate Ambassadors
San Mateo Public Library
Music by Siddharta Corsus
Skyline College Learning Communities
South San Francisco Public Library
Urban Word, Meera Dasgupta & Alexandra Huynh
and
The Academy of American Poets
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Midpen Media Center
“in bakers beach (love at the end of everything)” by Eva Chen, originally written for and featured in this project, appeared in Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States (2023), an anthology which grew out of the National Poets Laureate civic projects funded by the Academy of American Poets and Mellon Foundation.
Speak Poetry in San Mateo County 