We invite you to investigate crucial connections between the musical practice of Savanna Morgan in her debut EP Sweetwater and the trans-Atlantic and cosmopolitan songs of Bessie Smith. Morgan invokes the blues, a centuries-old African-American form of poetic storytelling, as a carrier of joys, sorrows, and knowledge – with the understanding that music and rhythm are the only containers big enough to hold the vast complexity of black histories. In the session, the audience will also be invited to join in on conversations between minds and bodies.

This is the second session of a monthly series on poetry and sound curated by Pia Chakraverti-Wuerthwein.