Wednesday, June 27 (1 day)
5 – 8 p.m. | The Light Box at Goldman Warehouse (404 NW 26 Street)

This three-hour poetry workshop is just for teens. Start your summer getting inspired to write and perform your own poetry out loud with internationally acclaimed poet Aja Monet, the youngest individual to win the legendary Nuyorican Poet’s Café Grand Slam Championship at the age of 19.

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Miami Poetry Collective ap jenewozman patwone bous detid pou de adolesan pou yo patisipe nan atelye 100% gratis! Gen de fason pou genyen:

• Soumèt yon paragraf kout ki gen 2 a 3 fraz. on why you want to take Aja Monet’s workshop, and how the scholarship can help you. Email Marci Cancio-Bello at [email protected] directly. (3 winners)
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Deadline EXTENDED: Friday, June 22 at 5:00 p.m. EST 

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Aja Monet, NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Literary Work-Poetry 2018, is an internationally established poet, educator and human rights activist of Cuban-Jamaican decent. Harry Belafonte has called Aja Monet “The true definition of an artist”. Her craft is an in-depth reflection of emotional wisdom, skill, and activism. The youngest individual to win the legendary Nuyorican Poet’s Café Grand Slam title, she is recognized for combining her spellbound voice and powerful imagery on stage. In her poetry, Monet poses questions about the power of the imagination and metaphor in how we engage with local and global issues, like racism, colonialism and sexism. Monet is active with community organizing through her work with the Dream Defenders and the Community Justice Project. Monet was a featured speaker at the Women’s March on Washington, D.C. where she read the title poem of her latest book, Manman m te yon konbatan pou libète (Haymarket books 2017). Monet’s other books include Inner-City Chants & Cyborg Cyphers (2015), and Yonikòn Nwa a ap chante (Penmanship books). In addition, she collaborated with poet/musician Saul Williams on the book Chorus: A Literary Mixtape (MTV books/Simon & Schuster).