Book Event - Togetherness
Thu, Jul 10
|Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe
Poet Savanna “Sweetwater” Morgan shares work from Togetherness, a new anthology she co-edited featuring 40 Black and Brown poets from across the diasporas. Join us for an intimate reading and conversation on poetry, memory, and collective voice.
Time & Location
Jul 10, 2025, 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM
Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe, 2714 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20001, USA
Guests
About The Event
About the book
Togetherness (Archive Books, 2025) is a powerful literary offering that reflects the spirit of the "Poetry Meets" community, nurtured over the last decade across cities including Berlin, Cologne, Nairobi, Bahia, and Amman.The anthology brings together the voices of 40 international artists, poets, dancers, musicians, and storytellers to explore themes of family, home, and (be)longing. Contributors engage with their realities and imaginations in forms as diverse as haikus, love letters, and sign language. Their work weaves together languages including Swahili, Tamil, Korean, Yorùbá, Umbundu, Ewe, and German Sign Language (DGS), affirming Poetry Meets as a multilingual and multicultural platform.
Savanna ‘Sweetwater’ Morgan is an internationally-based poet, musical-folklorist, and book editor. She has a Master’s degree in Performance Practice from Rose Bruford College's Berlin-based Arthaus conservatory, and is part of the publishing ensemble/feminist collective Archive Books, where she is an editor and performance-researcher. Recent publications include debut cow tripe (2022), Parabolis Virtualis (2023) and Togetherness (2025) for which she…