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Articles by Aileen Cassinetto
Grief
Posted inNews The archdiocese says the “At Peace” memorial at Queen of Heaven Catholic Cemetery is the first of its kind by any U.S. archdiocese. Posted inFaith in Focus I was used to pushing down my grief. I didn’t want my daughter to do the same. Posted inIdeas Maxim Naumov’s skate was more than a skate, it became a prayer, as he publicly grieved his parents—former Olympic skaters—with his skating at the Olympics.
The record isn’t complete without you
Water in San Mateo County has always been about power. In this context, I facilitated a workshop on March 11 as part of Skyline College’s State of Water exhibit where students crafted lyric lines drawn from real-time observations and placed them alongside legal instruments (i.e., the 1879 California Constitution, the Raker Act of 1913, and the more recent High Seas Treaty).
Catalog of Cures in Ordinary Time
Loading... Click here if you don’t see subscription options There’s a prayer for every malady in ordinary time if you know where to look, said my father, and though he kept his daily devotions and entreaties to himself, I found a psalter in his pocket the final summer he rescued clusters of sungold tomatoes from early blight. Like little sunsets, like a song of ascents, I wish to remember my father.
Parks, Recreation and Trails Visioning Workshop to be Held April 11 – The Bloom
What would you like to see in our local parks, recreation, and trails? The County of Lake invites you to attend a Visioning Workshop to learn about ongoing development of a Parks, Recreation, and Trails Master Plan, and contribute your thoughts and experiences to this important planning process.
Little Richard by Peter Balakian - Poems
On a walk past bulldozers and trucks pouring tarmac for the NJ Eisenhower highway my grandmother said to me as we turned into a market with olive barrels, hanging meat, piles of sumac and coriander— “he shakes away my blues.” It was 1959, and what did I know about starving in the Syrian desert or the Turkish whips that lashed the bodies of Armenian women on the roads of dust. I wouldn’t have believed that she saw those things. The radio was always on the sink in my grandmother’s kitchen.
How to be radical on Women’s Equality Day
In a letter to her mother dated Nov. 10, 1930, Frida Kahlo recounted passing through San Bruno on the way to San Francisco from Los Angeles. At the time, San Mateo County’s population was a little more than a 10th of what it is now. Prohibition was still in effect, and the Peninsula was known as much for its smuggled whiskey as for its thriving floral industry.
I AM, VILLANELLE: Poetry by Aileen Cassinetto – The Bloom
I am from balikbayan boxes, veiled markers of identity. I am from sunken galleons, misspent fragment of empires. I am from handknotted piña fibers, a cultivar of possibilities. I am from blue and white pottery, ghostly and full of stories. I am from unglazed earthenware, seasoned with intent and fire. I am from balikbayan boxes, movement of tenacity. I am from the heartwood of wounded lign aloes, an unfortunate luxury. I am from Glory of the Sea Cone, prized for its venom and spire.
State of poetry in the county
It isn’t that April is “the cruelest month.” It’s what it breeds in abundance, such as waste and war in a season of hope and harvest. Between these are the spaces where we attempt to carve out a future we can live with. When I was appointed county poet laureate by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors in 2019, my mandate was to celebrate poetry and make it more accessible to everyone. I interpreted it as looking at our many communities and identifying where poetry can be most helpful.
There are no kings in America
Find and share the perfect poems. we are not that kind of country. We are sanctuary for the hungry, the homeless, the huddled, held together by an idea our immigrant fathers believed in. Rendered, it meant independence. Pursued, it kindled war, ordinance, a fighting chance. Forty thousand musket balls, by themselves, did not shape the boundaries on which we map our days. To draw our borders, we needed more than firecakes. More than a pound of meat with bone and gristle, or salt fish and a gill of peas.
Tanaga: After Katy de la Cruz
For former Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III Ocean-born, I was always bound to come home to a sea that has no memory of me save for my stars, long- lived and feather-like. So close to the coastline, I hear sounds as they move just above the water’s surface. The rare glide upward, the slide and swing, the extra note. Balut, penoy, balut! Bil— 1 I hear your heart- beat this far from your shore.
Thank You, Amanda Gorman
By John Amen on January 29, 2021 in Focus, OUR WORLD, Poetry The 2021 inaugural poet, Amanda Gorman, embodied thoughtful confidence, equanimity, and a fluidity of style, her voice euphonic, her hand movements like balletic accentuations.
I Have a Dream: Inaugural Poems for a New Generation
The Next Gen By Aileen Cassinetto on January 20, 2021 in Main Posts, Poetry Introduction 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 and social distancing, and what was possibly the most gripping election in US history.
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