An immersive poetic and musical passage, Alex E. Chávez’s Sonorous Present extends sonic meditations on loss, migration, and memory across America’s borderlands—as physical place and liminal space. What began as an experimental and improvised performance in 2019—inspired by the music and poetics of Chávez’s multi-award-winning book Sounds of Crossing—was subsequently reimagined as a studio album in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning producer Quetzal Flores, and features luminaries from the worlds of traditional Mexican son and jazz—including, Aloe Blacc (2015 Grammy Award-nominee), Martha Gonzalez (2022 MacArthur Fellow), and Roger Reeves (Guggenheim fellow, National Book Award finalist, and Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and Griffin Poetry Prize recipient).