Monet grew up in East New York in Brooklyn and started writing poetry when she was 8 because she was “fascinated by typewriters and people who would sit at typewriters,” she said.
Monet fondly recalls her former college adviser: “I remember her suggesting what schools to go to and it wasn’t Harvard, you know what I mean?”
I think I know what she means. It’s just as well. The Harvard English department has dropped its poetry requirement for an English degree.
Monet’s YouTube video, The Devil You Know, serves up sensory tumult ending with an affecting diminuendo dissolve. Memorable line:
Silence is a noise, too.
I also relish the phrase “word-workers” among her honor roll of callings in the video. I could wish only that Monet’s word work were slightly more audible amidst the lively instrumentation that includes the sterling horn of Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah.
Sources
Marcus J. Moore, “Aja Monet, a Musical Poet of Love,” New York Times, 6-8-23.
Maureen Dowd, “Don’t Kill ‘Frankenstein’ With Real Frankensteins at Large,” New York Times, 5-27-23.
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How meaningful. Deep. But is there a podcast?
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Btw – You may enjoy my soundcast of “Nails on a Blackboard”. It’s in zoom time and was one of the top ten featured items on the PoMoCrisisPod. It’s behind a paywall (obvs).
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Thank you for the reference.
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