In an age of information overload and doom scrolling, poetry is essential. A good poem can cut to the core of an issue more immediately than an entire tome of research. It can jolt you awake, stir you ...

aja monet’s poems are a work of gravity. They are a fundamental for which all things are attracted, considered upon and enacted towards. Her work moves, constantly, between origin and outcome, ...

Poet Aja Monet reads sample poems from her latest poetry collection in called Florida Water at an event in Dale Zine in Miami. The personal and the political meld together for Aja Monet, whose work as ...

James Van Der Beek and Eric Dane also forgotten during the emotional tribute segment. 3 hours ago “It was an honor to work with such world class musicians to support such an important poem,” she ...

You can catch monet on tour starting next week at NYC’s Carnegie Hall on May 20. It’s her debut performance at the iconic venue, and she’ll be joined by Brian Hargrove on keyboards, Micah Aléc Collier ...

Sheldon Pearce is a music writer for The New Yorker’s Goings On newsletter. Emily Nussbaum, a staff writer at The New Yorker ...

when the poems do what they do puts Aja Monet's incisive poetry at the head of a taut and multidisciplinary band. In Black American folklore, music and poetry share the same soul. The poets of the ...

On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D sat down with acclaimed poet, recording artist, organizer and activist Aja Monet for a wide ranging conversation about poetry, Hip Hop, Black expression and her new ...

What is freedom? It’s the power to speak and act without restraint. It’s the small act of resistance. And for poet Aja Monet, it’s the shared experience of power between Black women that speaks to our ...

The personal and the political meld together for Aja Monet, whose work as a poet and activist brought her national recognition — and eventually brought her to Florida. Originally from New York, the ...

The poet's first recording with a band, when the poems do what they do, lends an emphatic new authority to her words, which she delivers with a... Aja Monet's debut album fuses art and advocacy, poet ...

Poet Aja Monet takes us on a journey of a time she felt liberated, a time where fellowship among Black women allowed freedom to float up beyond walls mean to keep it suppressed. Here is the coloring ...