2019 SUMMARY Appointed by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors in October 2018, I began my two-year term as Poet Laureate of San Mateo County on…… Read more “Poet Laureate”

Ghazal for George (The Nonconformist Magazine, June 26, 2020)   Haint Blue (San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 2020) To free yourself of the haint, you need to…… Read more “Poems”

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”