About Me
bio
Hassen Saker is a poet and interdisciplinary creator, working in texts, audio, photography, film, NFTs, performance, and actions.
Her written works have been published in magazines and small presses. Chapbooks include Salem (Belladona*), Crabapples (Furniture Press), Sky Journal from Land, Sky Journal from Sea, Sky Journal from Sky. Her first poetry collection, the triptych Sky Journal, was published in a single volume from Dusie Press in 2014. Her book of microsnark poems, Consolation Snacks, was published with Furniture Press in 2017. Saker’s art/poetry film installations have been featured online, in public art spaces & art shows, & she has performed in numerous venues.
In 2009 she founded the experimental organization, Center for Sublime Arts with its regular arts salon, and its sister social media/channel, VolkLibre, a community of artist-activists. For this, she directed & produced Heroes, a series of short video interviews with sustainability role models. Saker served for four years on Executive Committee for the Board of Directors of Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association. In 2011, she conceived, produced, directed & edited a feature-length private documentary and began her film production company, Dog Feed Dog Productions.
She has collaborated with other creators like poet Deborah Poe and artist/engineer/scientist/educator Natalie Jeremijenko at the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at NYU.
Additionally, Saker has been a green business owner for several years, starting in 2006 when she founded her B Corp, Organic Home, in the Philadelphia area and then the L3C art gallery and salon, Bureau of Aesthetic Enrichment, in Grand Rapids, Mi. Committed to the values of sustainable business, she was a director of the Board for the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia and for several years wrote the eco-advice blog, Dear Hippie.
In 2017 Saker moved to Michigan to care for aging family. She currently works and lives in Grand Rapids with her life partner.