I began my two-year term as Poet Laureate of San Mateo County on January 1, 2019 with a vision of what I hope to achieve. I am…… Read more “Poet Laureate”

Sunday, March 1, 2020 at 12pm (Reading & Reception) Winners of Filoli’s First Winter Haiku Competition will read their winning poems at a ceremony at Noon on…… Read more “Events”

Steeped in histories and cartographies, Aileen I. Cassinetto’s The Pink House of Purple Yam Preserves & Other Poems transports you into another realm. Lyrical and thoughtful juxtaposition,…… Read more “Books”

Aileen Cassinetto’s “Tweet,” which is as playful and wry in tone as we wish Twitter still was (this tone is echoed by the book’s childlike, almost Comic…… Read more “Other work”