THE POETRY OF THE BLUES
Talk Circle with Aja Monet
Moderation: Rádio Antena 3

Poet, activist, and multidisciplinary artist, Aja Monet uses words as tools of resistance, healing, and social transformation. Raised within New York’s Afro-Caribbean communities and deeply engaged with movements for racial justice and equity, Monet crafts a poetics that is both fierce and compassionate. In this conversation, the author of My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter and When the Poems Do What They Do reflects on the power of orality, the role of art in confronting systemic violence, and the transformative potential of care and affection in building more just futures.