As a surrealist blues poet, musician, and cultural worker, aja monet moves between mediums, each one an element to her writing. Building off a tradition rooted in oratorical facility, monet is the conduit for her predecessors to channel through.

“A word musician of Caribbean descent and American dissent, monet understands poems as life force, expressed and animated through breath, body, memory, experience, imagination, spirits and ancestors. Her poems are powerful and dangerous, like violets pushing through concrete to kiss the sun, or unarmed people, arms locked, chanting and singing, forcing armies to retreat. She is that unstoppable violet beckoned by sun. A warrior who wields words like a bouquet of hand grenades that sprout water lilies upon detonation.” – Robin D.G. Kelley for the Los Angeles Times

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