Aja Monet: Revolutionary Poetry (Playlist – 4 Videos)
Added 2020-03-25 13:00:04 +0000 UTCThis week's episode of The Laura Flanders Show is all about the intersection of art, identity and revolution. In From the Creative Frontline of Lebanon's Revolution, Lebanese artist and activist Dayna Ash talks about grassroots organization during the protests in Beirut and founding Haven for Artists, one of the few safe spaces for LGBTQI+ people and women in the region.
Aja Monet is a revolutionary poet whose work explores many of the same themes touched upon by Laura and Dayna Ash in their conversation this week. Monet's poetry is inspiring and empowering. In this playlist, you'll see her read "Apologies to all the People in Lebanon" by June Jordan in addition to two of her own poems. We also included the full episode of The Laura Flanders Show featuring Aja Monet: Resistance and Revolutionary Poetry.
1. Aja Monet Reads Apologies to all the People in Lebanon by June Jordan
Aja Monet celebrated iconic poet June Jordan in a reading of a poem dedicated to the 600,000 Palestinian men, children, and women who lived in Lebanon from 1948 to 1943. “Jordan begs us to trust one another and to tell the truth, to read the world more closely, to learn the wisdom of those who came before, who resisted before, and loved before,” says Monet.
4. Resistance and Revolutionary Poetry: Aja Monet
In this episode of The Laura Flanders Show, Aja Monet talks about free-speech, accountability, the poet June Jordan and the fight for Palestinian liberation. All that, and her new book My Mother was a Freedom Fighter.
