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Executive Director’s Author Series with aja monet
Thursday, November 9, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
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Dayton Metro Library will host its second Executive Director’s Author Series with a visit from aja monet on Thursday, November 9, in the Main Library’s Eichelberger Forum, from 6-7:30 pm.
aja monet is a community organizer, a blues poet, and an educator. As she moves from one medium to the next, her writing reflects each element. Her work expresses experiences of growing up in Brooklyn, witnessing police harassment, navigating language through rap music, graduating from Sarah Lawrence College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and living in Paris.
my mother was a freedom fighter, a collection of poems, debuted in 2017, which was nominated for a NAACP Image Award for Poetry. Additionally, in 2019, aja monet was awarded the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for Poetry. She has also co-edited Chorus: A Literary Mixtape with Saul Williams and released two chapbooks: The Black Unicorn Sings and Inner-City Cyborgs and Ciphers. Her debut album and most recent work, when the poems do what they do, expresses themes of Black resistance, love, and a quest for joy.
This session of the Executive Director’s Author Series – aja monet will be a moderated conversation centering around how her work intersects at the crossroads of art, politics, and culture. Registration is required.
For more information about aja monet, visit ajamonet.com. Registration for this program can be found at DaytonMetroLibrary.org under the “Events” calendar. Additional questions may also be directed to the Library’s Ask Me Line at 937.463.2665.