{"id":68024,"date":"2025-11-12T13:19:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T21:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=68024"},"modified":"2025-11-12T14:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T22:57:56","slug":"aja-monet","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/event\/aja-monet\/","title":{"rendered":"aja monet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"49942:0\">As a community organizer, poet, and musician,\u00a0<strong>aja monet<\/strong>\u00a0moves 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.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"49942:0\">She is the author of the poetry collection\u00a0<em>My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter<\/em>\u00a0(Haymarket Books, 2017), and of two chapbooks,\u00a0<em>The Black Unicorn Sings<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Inner-City Cyborgs and Ciphers<\/em>. monet also co-edited\u00a0<em>Chorus: A Literary Mixtape<\/em>\u00a0alongside poet-actor-director Saul Williams. Her newest book,\u00a0<em>Florida Water<\/em>, is out from Haymarket Books in June 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-aura-rendered-by=\"49942:0\">Inspired by the cleansing water often used in spiritual baths,\u00a0<em>Florida Water<\/em>\u00a0is an ode to the myriad ways a poem can rinse, reflect, reveal, and unravel us. 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