Aja Monet

APPEARING: MANHATTAN MARATHON @ ZINC BAR

Friday, January 10, 2025, 6 pm

aja monet is a surrealist blues poet, storyteller,

and organizer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She

won the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand

Slam poetry award title in 2007 2007 and Aja monet

follows in the long legacy and tradition of poets

participating and assembling in social movements.

Her first full collection of poems is titled, My

Mother Was a Freedom Fighter on Haymarket Books.

Her poems explore gender, race, migration, and

spirituality. In 2018 2018, she was nominated for a NAACP

Literary Award for Poetry and in 2019 2019 was awarded

the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for Poetry

for her cultural organizing work in South Florida.

aja monet cofounded a political home for artists

and organizers called, Smoke Signals Studio. She

facilitates “Voices: Poetry for the People,” a

workshop and collective in collaboration with

Community Justice Project and Dream Defenders.

She is currently working on her next full collection

of poems entitled, Florida Water. aja Monet also

serves as the new Artistic Creative Director for

V-Day, a global movement to end violence against

all women and girls.