Tag: community
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Portola Valley First Graders
Portola Valley First Graders Portola Valley First Graders in Ms. Ivana Hansen and Ms. Monica Gojcaj’s class wrote every line in their collaborative poem, “Woodland Poem,” which appeared in the anthology, I Have a Dream: Inaugural Poems for a New Generation (2021). Each student contributed a couplet. Poem on Belonging WOODLAND POEM You can put…
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Abigale Wee
Abigale Wee Abigale Wee was a freshman in high school when she won first place in the inaugural countywide 2020 Housing Leadership Council Youth Poetry & Art Competition. Poem on Belonging GROWING HOME There’s a certain endearment About the black and white tiles on the floor of Toy Boat Dessert Cafe, the lingering smell of…
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Maya Khosla
Maya Khosla Maya Khosla is a wildlife biologist and served as the Poet Laureate of Sonoma County from 2018 to 2020. Her Legacies Project brought Sonoma poets and students together in film. Her poems have been featured in documentary films, nominated for Pushcart Prizes and featured in The Literary Review, River Teeth, Poem, and other journals. Her books…
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Eileen Malone
Eileen Malone Eileen Malone is the author of The Complete Guide to Writers Groups, Conferences and Workshops (Wiley), the award-winning collection Letters with Taloned Claws (Poet’s Corner Press), and poetry books: I Should Have Given Them Water (Ragged Sky Press) as well as It Could Be Me, Although Unsure (Kelsay Press). Her poetry and stories…
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Eric Forgaard
Eric Forgaard Eric Forgaard moved to the SF Peninsula in 2002 after growing up in Santa Cruz and then logging decade-long stints in San Diego and Washington, D.C. He worked for 10 years as a systems manager, first for a scientific publishing firm and then for an accounting firm. After moving to the Peninsula, Eric…
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Belonging Begins With Us
A project by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto as part of the San Mateo County Office of Community Affairs Immigrant Services’ Welcoming Week 2021 Program Community poem contributors: Terry Adams, CSW/LGBTQ Commission Executive Director Tanya Beat, Marilu Bedolla, Megan Brown, Aileen Cassinetto, Eva Chen, Hilary Cruz Mejia, Portola Valley Councilmember Maryann Moise Derwin,…
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Speak Poetry Anthology, Vol. 1
From the introduction to Speak Poetry Vol. 1: When I was appointed Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, I was tasked with creating a poetry campaign to bridge and engage communities through the literary arts. My project, titled, “Speak Poetry,” is an ongoing conversation, where we’re given the opportunity to get to know people and…
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Speak Poetry Anthology, Vol. 2
From the introduction to Speak Poetry, Vol. 2: We are the language(s) we learned, the dragons we slayed, the monsters we defeated, the “gods we created”—we are all of our stories and every story read to us. We are also everything that we have forgotten. For this anthology, I’ve sent out a call to all…
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I Have a Dream: Inaugural Poems for a New Generation
From the introduction to I Have a Dream: Inaugural Poems for a New Generation: We begin with hope. This is perhaps why poems were traditional New Year’s gifts—for what is poetry but a stockpile of possibilities. The past year has been shaped by the coronavirus pandemic, by economic recession and racial unrest, by distance learning…
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Rod Daus-Magbual
Dr. Rod Daus-Magbual Dr. Roderick Raña Daus-Magbual, Mayor of Daly City, is an educator and has served on the City Council of Daly City since 2018. A Bay Area transplant via Riverside and Long Beach, he received his BA in Liberal Studies from UC Riverside in 2000, his MA in Asian American Studies at San…
Speak Poetry in San Mateo County 