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Florida Water is a collection of poems that, like the cleansing waters of spiritual baths, rinse, reflect, and reveal the raw truths that lie within. In this vulnerable meditation, aja monet reflects on her migration to South Florida in search of love, connection, and belonging, unearthing the delicate balance between the poet, lover, and community organiser. These poems lay bare the tender dance of relationships, entwining the personal with the political, as they confront the state's fractured history of racial prejudice, marooned peoples, and the unruly forces of nature. In Florida Water, each poem is an artifact an offering from her time spent wading through the rising tides of climate change, heartbreak, and systemic violence. With each line, monet immerses us deeper into the water, where the currents of memory, struggle, and survival pull us toward both despair and hope.

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"“Thank you, Aja Monet.” —Ava Duvernay “Interesting, powerful, at times challenging poetry.” —Roxane Gay “A triumphant collection."" —O Magazine “Stunning and evocative... fierce and revolutionary.” —Publishers Weekly Starred Review “A bold, intimate and powerful collection of poems.” —Ms. Magazine “Aja Monet’s writing blazes in these breathtakingly fierce poems.” —LitHub “Aja Monet’s poetry, like her activism, is one of resistance and reimagining. It resists simplicity, instead opening up new vistas for the reader and new points of entry into perspectives that are largely ignored; she gives voices to the marginalized and forgotten and imagines worlds in which those voices can ring out.” —The Los Angeles Review"

Thank you, Aja Monet. -Ava Duvernay Interesting, powerful, at times challenging poetry. -Roxane Gay A triumphant collection. -O Magazine Stunning and evocative... fierce and revolutionary. -Publishers Weekly Starred Review A bold, intimate and powerful collection of poems. -Ms. Magazine Aja Monet's writing blazes in these breathtakingly fierce poems. -LitHub Aja Monet's poetry, like her activism, is one of resistance and reimagining. It resists simplicity, instead opening up new vistas for the reader and new points of entry into perspectives that are largely ignored; she gives voices to the marginalized and forgotten and imagines worlds in which those voices can ring out. -The Los Angeles Review

Thank you, Aja Monet. --Ava Duvernay Interesting, powerful, at times challenging poetry. --Roxane Gay A triumphant collection. --O Magazine Stunning and evocative... fierce and revolutionary. --Publishers Weekly Starred Review A bold, intimate and powerful collection of poems. --Ms. Magazine Aja Monet's writing blazes in these breathtakingly fierce poems. --LitHub Aja Monet's poetry, like her activism, is one of resistance and reimagining. It resists simplicity, instead opening up new vistas for the reader and new points of entry into perspectives that are largely ignored; she gives voices to the marginalized and forgotten and imagines worlds in which those voices can ring out. --The Los Angeles Review

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aja monet is a surrealist blues poet, storyteller, and organiser born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. She won the legendary Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam poetry award title in 2007 and aja monet follows in the long legacy and tradition of poets participating and assembling in social movements. Her first full collection of poems is titled My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter, from Haymarket Books. Her poems explore gender, race, migration, and spirituality. In 2018, she was nominated for a NAACP Literary Award for Poetry and in 2019 was awarded the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Award for Poetry for her cultural organizing work in South Florida. aja monet co-founded a political home for artists and organisers called Smoke Signals Studio. She facilitates 'Voices: Poetry for the People', a workshop and collective in collaboration with Community Justice Project and Dream Defenders. aja Monet also serves as the new Artistic Creative Director for V-Day, a global movement to end violence against all women and girls.

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