Catherine Sasanov
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Interests Obsessions Research Links
The Steele slaves and their descendents of Greene County, Missouri .
My ancestors' part in their bondage . Memory, history, and America's
African American past . Isaac Franklin, Slave Trader . The photos of
Enrique Metinides . La nota roja Mexicana . La Santa Muerte . The
layered history of Mexico City . Las Magdalenas de Belén . The women
of la Merced . The photographs of Maya Goded . The writings of Elena
Poniatowska . St. Gemma Galgani . Repercussions of sanctity on the
life of Galgani's family .
FIELD AND ARCHIVAL RESEARCH
Current field and archival work in Virginia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi,
and Southwest Missouri. Past research in Lucca, Italy, and Mexico City.
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
"The Slaves of Richard Steele of Greene County, Missouri," Ozar'Kin, Fall 2006.
"The Steeles, Their Slaves, and the Civil War," Ozar'Kin, Spring 2007.
"Psalm 23," Poets on the Psalms (Trinity University Press, 2008).
FORTHCOMING AND RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Poems in Sentence, Hotel Amerika, Salamander, Calibanonline, and Skidrow Penthouse.
WHAT HAS KEPT IT ALL GOING
Fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,
Mexico's Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA),
the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation,
and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Blue Mountain Center, Hedgebrook,
the Millay Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center,
the National Endowment for the Arts U.S.-Mexico Creative Artist Residencies,
Bellagio, and the Sundance Institute.
A commission from Mabou Mines for the theater work Las Horas de Belén:
A Book of Hours.
LINKS
Regarding Had Slaves
Had Slaves named a Must Read by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Had Slaves listed in the Sacramento News & Review's "Best Reads of 2010"
Review of Had Slaves by Eileen Tabios in Galatea Resurrects #15
Review of Had Slaves by Julia Perch in Press 1
Two poems on pages 68-70 at calibanonline.com
New on the Book Shelf: Had Slaves (interview at Ellen Steinbaum blog)
Jamaicaway Books online interview with Catherine Sasanov (youtube video)
New Pages (Sima Rabinowitz review of Sasanov poems in Salamander )
The Past Is Not Dead. In Fact, It's Not Even Past: A Conversation Between W.R. Mayo and Catherine Sasanov on their ancestors and slaveholding
"Revisionist (History)" (Poem from Had Slaves in Salamander)
Three poems from Had Slaves (Greater Brockton Poetry Society)
Regarding la Santa Muerte, Las Horas de Belén: A Book of Hours
Cervena Barva Press interview with Catherine Sasanov
"Give Me My Little Skull: Photographer Joel Peter Witkin, Mexico City" (poem in
Skidrow Penthouse)
"Prison Prayers" (Village Voice article on Las Horas de Belen: A Book of Hours)
"Sanctuary or Prison? Perhaps it is Both" (New York Times, Anita Gates reviews Las Horas de Belen: A Book of Hours)
"Las Horas de Belen: A Book of Hours (review by Susan Morgan in Art Forum)
"Caste Painting No. 13" (Poem in Agni)
Regarding All the Blood Tethers
Review in America Magazine
Review in the Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion Newsletter
Artist of the Month profile in Image: A Journal of the Arts & Religion
"La Dolorosa" (poem in VQR: Virginia Quarterly Review)
