Tag: ecopoetry
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“The Future Is Poetry”
“The Future Is Poetry” is a documentary co-produced by Aileen Cassinetto and the Midpen Media Center, with support from The Academy of American Poets, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the County of San Mateo. With gratitude to the following students for their participation in this ecopoetry project: Cassandra Bousquet Angela Chen Eva Chen Chloe…
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Chloe Chou
Chloe Chou Chloe Chou is the 2022-23 Daly City Youth Poet Laureate and the 2022-23 South San Francisco Youth Poet-in-Residence. A South City resident, she is currently a freshman at Westmoor High School in Daly City. Her passions are coding and writing. In her free time, she likes to make mixtapes! In 2020, she published a…
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Recycled Poem
Recycled Poem This poem was crafted by Menlo Park Library staff member Priscilla S. Chan during the “Dear Earth, Dear Billie Eilish” youth ecopoetry workshop facilitated by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto. Part cento, part sensory poem, the exercise incorporates lines from a climate change song and lines describing the poet’s immediate surroundings…
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Cassandra Bousquet
Cassandra Bousquet Cassandra Bousquet is 18 years old. She enjoys knitting, reading, spending time in nature, and participating in theatre and chorus. She has been writing all her life and hopes to be a successful author in the future. Cassandra is a recent graduate of the Youth Climate Ambassador program put on by San Mateo…
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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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Lauren Lin
Lauren Lin “I am Lauren Lin, a sixteen-year old sophomore in high school. I write poetry to express the veiled aspects of my mind that may not be clear to me until written in verse. I believe in the power of poetry to both inspire and connect individuals from all walks of life. I hope…
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Ideas to Postpone the End of the World
Ideas to Postpone the End of the World This poem is part of an ecopoetry project by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto made possible by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Ecopoem “IDEAS TO POSTPONE THE END OF THE WORLD” “The Earth is speaking, she tells…
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Breathe
Breathe This poem is part of an ecopoetry project by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto made possible by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Contributors/participants: Cassandra Bousquet, Aileen Cassinetto, Angela Chen, Eva Chen, Chloe Chou, Bellamy Cramer, Ronit Das, Alexandra Huynh, Arda Inegol, Samantha Ishikawa, Maya…
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Eva Chen
Eva Chen Eva Chen is a 16-year-old poet, photographer and social justice activist. Her writing has been recognized in the Scholastic Arts and Writing Competition and published in The Weight Journal, Catcher Zine, and Cathartic Literary Magazine. She co-founded Footprints on Jupiter, a teen literary magazine, to raise funds for the World Literacy Foundation. In…
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BREATHE
This poem is part of an ecopoetry project by San Mateo County Poet Laureate Aileen Cassinetto made possible by The Academy of American Poets with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Contributors: Cassandra Bousquet, Chloe Chou, Bellamy Cramer, Ronit Das, Arda Inegol, Samantha Ishikawa, Maya Kornyeyeva, Iris Li, Caroline Lim, Allen Mata, Hanna Docampo…
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