Though she grew up in New York and now calls Los Angeles home, Aja Monet’s six years in Miami played a pivotal role in her growth as a poet. Her second collection of poetry, Florida Water, out June 3, ...

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 ...

Aja Monet is a surrealist blues poet and musician. AJA MONET: The blues is just - I feel like it's my origin story, you know? It's where I begin and probably where I'll end. MARTÍNEZ: Two years ago, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On the first brisk night of fall in Los Angeles, the self-described surrealist blues ...

monet, who hasn’t released a collection of poetry since 2017’s My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, graced the stage donning a keffiyeh and her signature blue-black curls. Florida Waterexplores the toll ...

“Who’s got time for poems when the world’s on fire?” asks Aja Monet in the heart-achingly beautiful and gut-wrenchingly honest ‘For Sonia.’ Her answer, it becomes clear, is that it is precisely when ...