#ajamonet

[lmjupdates]

Lauren on ajamonet’s post

[trascapades]

#ArtIsAWeapon

🖤Reposted from @forfreedoms for the citizens who dare to love

to create and risk and rally

clenching courage

like a truth telling poem

or photograph

for the will to change

for the freedoms we cherish

and the stories yet to be told

art is a vote and a choice

how we shape and shift the culture

how we get free

🎥

For… Freedom (2020) is an interdisciplinary collaboration of film, poetry, and art to help continue a national dialogue around commerce, politics, education, and the role of the artist created by Lyndon Barrois Sr (@itsawrapper) in collaboration with artist @shantell_martin and poet @ajamonet.

#Art #Artists #ForFreedoms

[americanahighways]

Show Review: Newport Jazz Festival 2024

Show Review: Newport Jazz Festival 2024 @newportjazzfest @ajamonet@chrmcbride @coryjwong @kmsaiwashington @chiefadjuahofficial @carlnhawaii #concertphotography #livemusicphotography #festivalphotography @sunaarkestraofficial @anatcohenmusic @ravicoltrane @stanleyclarke @blackfoorwhitefoot #americanamusic #photographedbyahuman

[artbookdap]

Feast your eyes on 'Amoako Boafo,' published by @robertsprojects !⁠ ⁠ This is the first monograph on the sinuous, exhilaratingly colorful and pattern-filled portraiture of Ghanaian painter Amoako Boafo.⁠ ⁠ Exclusively portraying individuals from the diaspora and beyond, Boafo invites a reflection on Black subjectivity, diversity and complexity. His portraits, notable for their bold colors and patterns, celebrate his subjects as a means to challenge portrayals that objectify and dehumanize Blackness. As Boafo has stated, “the primary idea of my practice is representation, documenting, celebrating and showing new ways to approach Blackness.”⁠ ⁠ Foreword by Camille Weiner. Text by Osei Bonsu, Rachel Cargle, Mutombo Da Poet, Aja Monet. Interview by Paul Schimmel.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @amoakoboafo @oseibonsu_ @rachel.cargle @mutombodapoet @ajamonet @therealpaulschimmel #AmoakoBoafo⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVWganJToi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[supportblackart]

Via @youngglobal 🙌🏾 TOMORROW NIGHT pull up to Hear/Here at @nationalsawdust and experience this 1x only event that features music, visual art and poetry ....Cop your tickets here ---> https://bit.ly/2wBzVAM (link in @youngglobal’s bio) ___________________ @ArtNoirCo ARTNOIR presents Hear/Here an evening of live multidisciplinary performance that mediates on the power of ideas, creativity & collaboration at 8PM Friday, May 25th at National Sawdust. ___________________ Hear/Here features a first-time collaboration between 🎼🎹composer/pianist @samorapinderhughes & 🎨visual artist @ninachanel, along with special guest 📃 poet @ajamonet (pictured above) and 🎺musician @ambroseire, whose collective talents leverage the power of collaboration as a platform for discourse, debate and self-discovery. ___________________ #SupportBlackArt #Artnoir #collaboration #music #poetry #art #SamoraPinderhughes #NinaChanelAbney #AjaMonet #AmbroseAkinmusire #LarryOsseiMensah #nationalsawdust

[glitterninja007]

It's #wellnesswednesday and what goes with wellness? Poetry. Here are amazing excerpts from some of my favorite works of poetry by Black women (tagged in the pic). Also, if you didn't know, Amanda Gorman's collection will be released on September 21, and her inaugural work will be released on March 21. 💖 ✊🏼 #dupeblack #blackhistory #blackpoets #ajamonet #alexelle #nayyirahwaheed #yrsadaleyward #upilechisala https://www.instagram.com/p/CK1_JwYJ1rc/?igshid=15lcyh7wgtx6d

[ultraevonne]

#tbt Replace “brother” 4 “father”, “sister” 4 “daughter” and this is my story. I was maybe 8 or 9... This is why authority, power, law and order are triggering words 4 many of us and the trauma is buried until it’s not. 🙏🏾💚🙏🏾 #thursday #thursdaythoughts #poetry #poets #ajamonet #art #artists #repost @naziejoon @ajamonet (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBTGB_gA07Q/?igshid=asbm8f43g8yg

[beblk]

aaron samuels | hafizah geter | aja monet

khari b | tina m. howell | alison c. rollins

heather "bryd" roberts | natasha trethewey | michael warr

quincy lanear | aisha sharif | michelle whittaker

brian francis | gary allen jackson | kiala givehand

blk!

#poets #nationalpoetrymonth

[noordoost]

Poet Aja Monet reading from her first real book ‘My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter’ 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

on fire

[booksforyears]

"we photograph moments / best kept in photo albums / of our memory / and upload them into society / they become fragments we share / while distance dances between us" - from "mobile technology" by Aja Monet 📚❤️📱 #books #read #reading #bookish #booklover #booklife #bibliophile #poetry #poetrycollection #mymotherwasafreedomfighter #ajamonet #haymarketbooks #socialcommentary #toebeans #caturday #catstagram #catsofinstagram #bookstagram #booksofinstagram

[lmjupdates]

Lauren on ajamonet's story

[haymarketbooks]

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Tonight, we’re honored to be supporting #homemadepoems in memory of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Tony McDade, hosted by @ajamonet Stream begins at 7pm ET. Follow @ajamonet for the link. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBdvE_2g3Mx/?igshid=18lop7zp0guc8

[intoxicatingimmediacy]

rafaelcasal | 2009/2019 challenge - let’s review by photo: 2009 I was 23yrs old. 1. touring poetry and music off of Def Poetry, 2. in a band with @daveeddiggs called THE GETBACK, 3. i was doing radio appearances from songs that had went viral on YouTube (Bay Area slang top 100 w/ @onekingkong ) @djrazberry 4. I went to Bermuda with @ajamonet & @maydadelvalle 5. GETBACK crew doing a radio spot with @wonwayposibul 6. Hosted @bravenewvoices, where I got my start in poetry nine years earlier 7. Was doing solo rap shows (this is Michigan with @jayfab_vs_theworld ) 8. Hosted Madison Wisconsin’s annual teen slam competition 9. Was building the first scholarship based undergraduate arts program @omaifirstwave at @uwmadison as it’s creative director while taking classes towards my BA at the same university I taught at in secret at night.

The artist hustle is the hardest hustle. Nobody who isn’t doing it really understands how much a labor of love it is, and for some of us, how many years we’ve been at it. 2009 is about 9 years into my artistic performance life, So we can call this right before the halfway point to now. Less concerned with if I look like I’ve aged or not, I love this adventure, I love the people i have gotten to work with and love and keep as community. I love that so many of my collaborators, students-turned-peers and friends ARE STILL IN MY LIFE, and still thriving in their art. That’s the real glow up.

[foreverthesoniag]

This!!! Doing my first online poetry reading dedicated to essential/frontline workers and everyone impacted by #covid_19 . “Bread for all, and Roses too!” Homemade: Poetic Remedies for the Times is a poetry reading series by @ajamonet that offers literal herbal remedies as well as medicinal poems. Join us on May 1st aka MAY DAY 7-9PM est featuring this incredible line up of badass poets @martinespadapoet, Wendy Trevino, @workerwritersschool , @tyehimbajess, @denicefrohman , @_joseolivarez , @staceyannchin , @thesoniag, @wordslanger , Alando McIntyre, Christine Lewis, @adalimonwriter , and @calvinearlyspeaks. All proceeds go to artists and providing food, Covid-19 tests, and shelter for houses community in South Florida. Donations venmo : @ PoetryForthePeople or CashApp @ PoetryForThepeople or PayPal: smokesignalsstudio@gmail.com [Flyer by@benconnors . Event through the support from @haymarketbooks ] #socialpoetics #homemadepoems #poetryforthepeople #artist #poetry #writersofcolor #qtpoc #latinx #genderqueer https://www.instagram.com/p/B_SrF0QFOv0/?igshid=olccpc1t19pu

[xxblassxx]

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#Repost @qlatinx ・・・ ***TICKET GIVEAWAY*** . Comment below with your zip code and enter for a chance to win a free ticket. . @qlatinx is teaming with the @flimmigrant, @wearelovearmy, @greenforall_official, and a dozen local partners to host #WeAreAllAmerica Freedom Fest! . This event will feature a special concert from @joryboyofficial, @djblass1, and @ajamonet, alongside dozens of local and international talent! . #qlatinx #orlandounidos #orlandoevent #weareallamerica #joryboy #djblass #ajamonet #concert #freeconcert #reggaeton #wevote #democracynow #lgbt #lgbtq #latinx #afrolatinx https://www.instagram.com/p/BnjVVUrF-La/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1phji0zh5odh5

[lboogiepopworld]

#RepostSave @miamibookfair with @repostsaveapp ・・・ Calling all teen poets! Here’s your chance to work with @ajamonet, the youngest poet to win the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café Grand Slam Championship. #MiamiBookFair and the @miamilightproject present a poetry workshop for teens on June 27th! #ajamonet #bemdc #poetry #workshop #poets #miamipoets #teenpoet (at The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse)