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Aja Monet Bacquie (born August 21, 1987) is an American contemporary poet, writer, lyricist and activist.
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| Born | Aja Monet Bacquie August 21, 1987 Brooklyn, New York, United States |
| Occupation | Poet, writer, lyricist, activist |
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Biography
Aja Monet is of Cuban-Jamaican descent from Brooklyn, New York. She is known to be the youngest poet to have ever become the Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam Champion at the age of 19 in 2007, and is the last woman to have won this title since.[1][2][3] Monet is also known for her activist work, and has been an active participant of the SayHerName campaign, which has highlighted police brutality against black women.[4] She is a contributor to the 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa (edited by Margaret Busby), with poems "about love and intimacy as a primary aspect of freedom fighting".[5]
However, when Aja Monet was 19 years old, she was the youngest popular writer of “Nuyorican Poets Café’s Grand Slam” since she was committed to her talent. Later, she earned her certificate of Bachelor of Arts (from Sarah Lawrence College) and MFA in writing from an institute in Chicago (Art Institute). Not far from her graduation, she published two E-books, “Black Unicorn Sings (2010)” and “Inner-City Cyborgs and Ciphers (2014).” She also did co-editing and arrangements of the spoken word chorus “A literary Mixtape (2012).”
Monet was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry for her collection My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter.[6] A starred review in Publishers Weekly praised Monet's "stunning and evocative language" as she "strikingly illustrates the passage from girlhood to womanhood".[7]
Bibliography
Poetry
- My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter (2017)
- The Black Unicorn Sings (2010)
- Chorus
- Say Her Name
References
- "Verbs On Asphalt – 2007 Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion". Nuyorican Poets Café. Archived from the original on February 19, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
- "Verbs on Asphalt – The History of Nuyorican Poetry Slam". Archived from the original on February 19, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
- Zhou, Kathy (January 16, 2014). "MLK celebrated with open stage for spoken word". The Chronicle. Duke University. Archived from the original on February 20, 2014. Retrieved February 2, 2014.
- Crum, Maddie (July 7, 2016). "Poet Aja Monet Confronts Police Brutality In Stunning Spoken Word Performance". The Huffington Post. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
- Perry, Imani (March 29, 2019). "New Daughters of Africa — a new anthology of a groundbreaking book". Financial Times. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
- Segura, Olga M. (May 8, 2018). "The Love and Fearlessness of 'My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter'". Shondaland. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
- "My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter". Publishers Weekly. May 15, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
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External links
- Official website
- PBS News Hour
- https://www.shondaland.com/inspire/books/a20268443/my-mother-was-a-freedom-fighter-aja-monet-interview/
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