Aileen Cassinetto, publisher of Paloma Press and Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, CA, has been named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and will receive a $50,000 grant for her public poetry program. “On Thursday, the academy announced more than $1 million in grants for 23 local and state laureates. They include the Charleston-based Marcus Amaker, Ohio laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour, Illinois laureate Angela Jackson and Aileen Cassinetto of San Mateo County. Others are from Flint, Michigan; Springfield, Massachusetts, and Elgin, Illinois.” Read the announcement here.
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