Introducing Aja Monet on Kofifi FM 97.2
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Our guest this Sunday is a surrealist blues poet, storyteller, educator and organizer born and raised in Brooklyn, NY.
She is the youngest winner of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam poetry award and follows in the 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 and Her poems explore gender, race, migration, and spirituality.
She joins us this afternoon, to talk to us about this work and we will also be listening in to her jazz and poetry project “ When poems do what they do”
She is the youngest winner of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam poetry award and follows in the 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 and Her poems explore gender, race, migration, and spirituality.
She joins us this afternoon, to talk to us about this work and we will also be listening in to her jazz and poetry project “ When poems do what they do”
