Poet. Dancer. Community.

Alfonso "Sito" Sasieta is a poet, dancer, and community builder. He is a site leader for the small, collaborative project to restore a neglected forest -- El Bosquecito -- near his home in Colmar Manor, MD. He is the Outreach Coordinator and a longtime member of L’Arche Greater Washington DC, a community of people where people with and without intellectual disabilities share their lives. He has spoken alongside adults with disabilities in various university, corporate, and faith-based settings.

Sito is also a principal dancer and instructor for the acclaimed Cuban dance company, DC Casineros. He is a CantoMundo poetry fellow. The son of a Peruvian cook and a Lutheran deaconess, Sito was raised in a pizzeria in the small, farming town of Carrollton, Illinois. His writing explores embodiment, sports, dance, music, the ecstatic, the theological, and our capacity to be surprised. Sito’s poems and prose have been published in Image, Sojourners, Red Wheelbarrow, Cold Mountain Review, The Michigan Review, The Christian Century, The Acentos Review and elsewhere.