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”

This event will be rescheduled. Eastwind Books of Berkeley Celebrates Women’s History Month with Asian American Poets Laureate Maw Shein Win & Aileen Cassinetto Eastwind Books of…… 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”