"Aja Monet ‘s poetry offers us textures of feeling and radical shifts of meaning that expand our capacity to envision and fight for new worlds." –Angela Davis

Poet Aja-Monet's My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is an ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world.

Join Aja and special guests for an evening of readings to celebrate the launch of her new collection. Light refreshments provided.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1067-my-mother-was-a-freedom-fighter

These poems are made of the black woman genius they praise: "the ghost of women once girls," "mothers who did the best they could," and "daughters of a new day." Monet is a child of old school black power and a daughter of the myriad political traumas of today. Her poetry is indispensable. These poems are fire.”
–Terrance Hayes