House of Waters ft. Priya Darshini with poets Safia Elhillo, Haleh Liza Gafori, Rania Mamoun and Nathan Osorio for Jazz Poetry at Alphabet City-City of Asylum, Northside

Featured Musicians:

Max ZT: hammered dulcimer; Moto Fukushima: 6-string electric bass; Franco Pinna: drums; Priya Darshini: vocals 

House of Waters incorporates elements of West African, psychedelic, indie rock, and classical and world musics in their style to be at the forefront of jazz innovation.

Sharing the stage with the group are Safia Elhillo, the Sudanese author of The January Children (Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Arab American Book Award); Haleh Liza Gafori, Persian poet and musician whose acclaimed translations of Rumi (Gold and Water) have given new audiences insight into the mind of the 13th-century poet; Rania Mamoun, Sudanese activist and poet (and City of Asylum Writer-in-Residence) who beautifully captured the early days of the pandemic in her collection Something Evergreen Called Life; and Nathan Osorio, poet and scholar whose debut poetry collection, Querida, was selected by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize.