Prepare to be transformed by the powerful words of GRAMMY-nominated surrealist blues poet Aja Monet. Her improvisational spoken word poetry, staged with jazz musicians including renowned pianist Vijay Iyer, delves into profound themes of gender, race, migration, and spirituality. This unforgettable evening will leave you questioning, feeling, and inspired.

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, allowing them to exist in converse. In her debut album when the poems do what they do, we glimpse her indefatigable commitment to speak. Those thematic origins of this album at times center around Black resistance, love and the inexhaustible quest for joy.

As a community organizer, surrealist blues poet and teacher aja monet moves between mediums, each one an element to her writing. Here, organizing and activism ...

Prepare to be transformed by the powerful words of GRAMMY-nominated surrealist blues poet Aja Monet. Her improvisational spoken word poetry, staged with jazz musicians including renowned pianist Vijay Iyer, delves into profound themes of gender, race, migration, and spirituality. This unforgettable evening will leave you questioning, feeling, and inspired.

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, allowing them to exist in converse. In her debut album when the poems do what they do, we glimpse her indefatigable commitment to speak. Those thematic origins of this album at times center around Black resistance, love and the inexhaustible quest for joy.

As a community organizer, surrealist blues poet and teacher aja monet moves between mediums, each one an element to her writing. Here, organizing and activism aren’t the point, they’re the process. The endgame is liberation and the poems, the music, and the art serve as the scribe of the time. Building off a tradition rooted in oratorical facility aja is the conduit for her predecessors to channel through. At any given time you’ll find the revolutionary spirit of Audre Lorde and the Last Poets, you’ll feel June Jordan, Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez and even the expressive ephemerality of a passing blue note. All appearing as generational trees from which these poems fruit....

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