On her debut album, “When the Poems Do What They Do,” the writer and community organizer offers up a fluid mix of jazz and poetry that evokes the spirit of 1990s spoken-word scenes.

The Tiny Desk blooms with the stanzas, sounds and legacy of jazz poetry.

Please note that advanced tickets are officially sold out. Limited tickets will be available at the door–we encourage you to arrive early.Join us in th…

The homegrown music festival takes over venues across the Bay Area Feb. 22–March 3, 2024.

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Over 100 artists sign on to a letter condemning Israel and “to stand in solidarity with those resisting occupation and fighting for their right to self-determination”

The surrealist blues poet is a musician of the subversive imagination, a truth-telling magician. Her poems are powerful and dangerous, like violets pushing through concrete to kiss the sun.

Before discussing her latest album, when the poems do what they do, Aja Monet needs to set something straight: She doesn’t do “spoken word.” Her medium is poetr…

aja monet premieres the official visualizer for her new song, “why my love?,” with The FADER.

aja monet premieres the official visualizer for her new song, “why my love?,” with The FADER.

aja monet premieres the official visualizer for her new song, “why my love?,” with The FADER.

Shabaka Hutchings’ electronic-leaning trio The Comet Is Coming have been out on tour this summer before they “return to near earth orbit to allow Betamax, Danalogue and Shabaka to concentrate on other pathways of artistic exploration.”

Multi-artist and cultural worker aja monet has shared a single and new short film “The Devil You Know.” The song is out via drink sum wtr

Surrealist blues poet and cultural worker aja monet has released a new powerful single and mesmerizing short film “The Devil You Know” via the drink sum wtr label, a new imprint of Secretly Canadian.

BROOKLYN-BORN POET AND ACTIVIST AJA MONET HAS RELEASED NEW SINGLE AND SHORT FILM “THE DEVIL YOU KNOW” VIA INDIE LABEL DRINKSUMWTR.

Spacious and honed, truthfully timeless and white hot, “the devil you know” is the wild, wise, brutally-honest and ultimately-uplifting new track from aja monet — a poet, critic a…

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The boy might be a liar, but the memes simply don’t lie

The Martell Cognac partnered event was held over two days with the theme of “agony and ecstasy.”

Joshua Renfroe, Kuukua Eshun, Aja Monet, and Mike Abrantie tell MTV News about purpose and perspective in Black communities worldwide

Black masculinity in focus. Shamel Pitts challenges the idea with the touch of red. Read full details here. Afropunk music blog 2023 is live. Join Afropunk community.

The beauty and the pain that shares the space of aja monet’s new track, “The Devil You Know,” and its accompanying short film is breathtaking.

Poet Aja Monet discusses finding language in what you’ve lived, art as a form of service, the oral tradition as a way to live forever, and being drawn to wordlessness.

The beauty and the pain that shares the space of aja monet’s new track, “The Devil You Know,” and its accompanying short film is breathtaking.

For World Poetry Day, check out these Black poets who have contributed to the landscape of this special written word form.

Surrealist blues poet and community organizer aja monet has announced her debut album when the poems do what they do is set for release…

aja monet will release her debut album ‘when the poems do what they do’ on June 9th. A poet, social organiser, and all-round champion, aja monet finessed

Including a serotonin-boosting TikTok, boygenius’ latest batch of love songs, and a book of dystopian short stories that’ll mess you up.

These activists say there’s an “erasure” of Sanders’s Black supporters.

Aja Monet wants to tell the truth in her poetry.

These poets cover North Korean missile taunts, the water crisis in Flint, the inadequacy of the U.S. government’s apology to Native Americans, children affected by school shootings and economic divides. Their poems radiate defiance and vision.

Last month, during a rally in Union Square, poet Aja Monet took the podium dressed entirely in black, looking somber and resolute like a woman…

Afro-Cuban poet Aja Monet and her partner Umi Selah of Dream Defenders will launch Smoke Signals studio in Miami this February.

Aja Monet has been political since long before Trump’s election.

Meet Aja Monet, a poet who’s using her voice to bear witness to the injustices she sees.

Aja Monet’s poem examines the “reckoning of power” in an interaction between her brother and the police.

In poet Eduardo Martinez’s work, power is a trap; being ruled by it is a trap, and wielding it is, too, a dynamic that he said he confronts every day in prison.

Aja Monet: The Miami poet performed her work, “My Mother was a Freedom Fighter,” at the Perez Art Museum Miami’s Ambassadors for Africa American

“This is Black Joy,” by Miami poet Aja Monet at the Perez Art Museum Miami Ambassadors for African American Art event, February 21, 2017.

When Aja Monet and Umi Selah were first tossing around the idea of building their own recording studio, a lot of decisions needed to be made. First, a name. It was Aja who came up with Smoke Signals. Umi Selah (formely known as Phillip Agnew) explains its significance like this: “A…

Where the Land is Free, an exhibition presented by Poetry for the People and on view at Bakehouse Art Complex in Wynwood, Miami, utilizes poetry and art as a starting point for community activism and social justice. Watch an exclusive video of the show’s opening night here, created by FXRBES and sha…

Musician and social activist umi selah has always wanted a studio in house. With the help of his partner, educator and poet Aja Monet, selah’s dream to live together as innovative artists has bloss…

We meet a group of artists and creatives who know Miami inside out