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”

Friday, February 7, 2020, 7pm 2nd Annual San Mateo County Poetry Out Loud Competition Youth from several San Mateo County high schools perform for advancement to the…… 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”