Aja-Monet
Aja-Monet
Harlem, NY
Other / Poetry / Soul
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Bob Holman eloquently describes her as a, "glutton for love and
beauty...classically surrealist. I haven't heard a 'humming bird
released from a mother's ribcage' in the last week or two, wow."
A Cuban-Jamaican from East NY, Brooklyn, representing Harlem, NY.
At only 20 years old, Aja-Monet is currently the youngest Nuyorican Poets
Café Grandslam Champion and placed top 20 out of hundreds of poets
across the nation in 2007. She has been on the Urban Word NYC Slam
Team in 2005 and represented New York City at the Brave New Voices
Inter-National Poetry Slam in San Francisco, reigning, as the first NYC team
to ever win the Youth National Poetry Slam team title.
Aja-Monet's poetry is a startling, soul warbling movement with a voice
whose cadence dances strong and beautifully on the ear. Often received
by both poetry and Hip Hop crowds, her poetry moves one to a place of
inspiration and sincere thought. Her work is a vulnerable internal
reflection conveying a love and emphasis of human compassion and
connection.
She has been featured in Say It Loud magazine, The Brooklyn Rail,
Beyond Race Magazine, and on the MNN television channel. Monet has
shared the stage and performed for the likes of Russel Simmons,
Reverend Run, Foxy Brown, Doug E Fresh, Wyclef Jean, Ice T, Roxanne
Shante as well as countless others.
A vivid, raw, and real expression of her experience and imagination,
Aja-Monet moves audiences of all sorts. She has been reviewed in the
New York Times along with Camille A. Brown and Dancers for her
"bold, glistening spoken word imagery" as quoted by Gay City News.
Monet currently dedicates her time working with inner-city youth and
poetry for non-profit organizations such as Urban Word NYC, In Arms
Reach, and Odyssey House. She attends Sarah Lawrence College where she
is studying Writing and Religion.
beauty...classically surrealist. I haven't heard a 'humming bird
released from a mother's ribcage' in the last week or two, wow."
A Cuban-Jamaican from East NY, Brooklyn, representing Harlem, NY.
At only 20 years old, Aja-Monet is currently the youngest Nuyorican Poets
Café Grandslam Champion and placed top 20 out of hundreds of poets
across the nation in 2007. She has been on the Urban Word NYC Slam
Team in 2005 and represented New York City at the Brave New Voices
Inter-National Poetry Slam in San Francisco, reigning, as the first NYC team
to ever win the Youth National Poetry Slam team title.
Aja-Monet's poetry is a startling, soul warbling movement with a voice
whose cadence dances strong and beautifully on the ear. Often received
by both poetry and Hip Hop crowds, her poetry moves one to a place of
inspiration and sincere thought. Her work is a vulnerable internal
reflection conveying a love and emphasis of human compassion and
connection.
She has been featured in Say It Loud magazine, The Brooklyn Rail,
Beyond Race Magazine, and on the MNN television channel. Monet has
shared the stage and performed for the likes of Russel Simmons,
Reverend Run, Foxy Brown, Doug E Fresh, Wyclef Jean, Ice T, Roxanne
Shante as well as countless others.
A vivid, raw, and real expression of her experience and imagination,
Aja-Monet moves audiences of all sorts. She has been reviewed in the
New York Times along with Camille A. Brown and Dancers for her
"bold, glistening spoken word imagery" as quoted by Gay City News.
Monet currently dedicates her time working with inner-city youth and
poetry for non-profit organizations such as Urban Word NYC, In Arms
Reach, and Odyssey House. She attends Sarah Lawrence College where she
is studying Writing and Religion.
