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Aja Monet #HighlightedPoet

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evecastle.bsky.social Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · Mar 1
“Poetry alone cannot change the material conditions of an unjust society, but I challenge anyone to name a substantive freedom movement that does not have poetry.”

–Aja Monet, poet #quote
August 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Interview with Aja Monet #HighlightedPoet

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evecastle.bsky.social Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · Mar 1
An amazing & inspiring interview with poet & activist Aja Monet. Don’t miss this, bookmark this! The interview read is about 20 minutes but there are also 2 videos of her performing, 1 is 10 min & one is 25 min. 🤩

She’s amazingly quotable for our times.

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Aja Monet interview — Interlocutor
Poet, writer, lyricist, and activist aja monet speaks in-depth about background, motivations, career to date, and how she’s feeling about her Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Poetry Album for he...
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August 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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“A challenge for every writer, I imagine, is to understand that real exploration involves real risk; it can be scary and exhilarating even to discover unexpected aspects of one’s own sensibility in writing a poem.”

#quote Sandra Lim
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June 8, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Interview with Naomi Shihab Nye
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August 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Aja Monet #HighlightedPoet

#poem Cast Away
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evecastle.bsky.social Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · Jun 1
Aja Monet #poem Cast Away

“i did not want to write a poem full of corpses

so i wrote a sacred pink blue sky jeweled on the horizon

laughter as the loudest star sleeps

humor hugs every ache whole…”

ajamonet.com/cast-away/
cast away – aja monet
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August 8, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Naomi Shihab Nye
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evecastle.bsky.social Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · Jan 4
World of the Future, We Thirsted #poem by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Poem by Naomi Shihab Nye World of the Future, We Thirsted Stripped of a sense of well-being, we downed our water from small disposable bottles. Casting the plastic to streetside, we poured high-potency energy tonics or Coke down our throats, because this time in history had sapped us so thoroughly and we were desperate. Straws, plastic caps, crushed cans, in a three-block walk you could fill a sack. As if we could replenish spirits quickly, pitching containers without remorse -who did we imagine would pick them up? What did we really know of plastic spirals in the sea bigger than whole countries, we had never swirled in one ourselves, as a fish might do, a sea urchin, a whole family of eels, did we wish to be invincible, using what we wanted, discarding what we didn't, as in wars, whole cities and nations crumpled after our tanks and big guns pull out? How long does it take to be thirsty again? We were so lonely in the streets though all the small houses still had noses, mouths, eyes from which we might peer, as our fellow- citizens walk their dogs, pause helplessly as the dogs circle trees, tip their heads back for a long slow slug of water or tea, and never fear, never fear.
August 16, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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“The tradition of #poetry is oral. If a poet agrees to read their work in front of an audience, then they are performing—

whether it’s flamboyant or mumbling from a corner on the stage.”

—Tishani Doshi

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May 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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We don’t make art alone. We make art in community.

#quote Ada Limón
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May 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

#quote Naomi Shihab Nye
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August 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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#Poem The Swan, No. 20 (Hilma af Klimt) by Victoria Chang

today’s #HighlightedPoet @victoriachang.bsky.social

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February 21, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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#Poet Juliet S. Kono gorgeous poem:

Silverswords

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Silverswords
At cold daybreak
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June 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Aja Monet #HighlightedPoet

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the ghosts of women once girls
evecastle.bsky.social Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · Mar 1
Poem by poet Aja Monet, the ghosts of women once girls.

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the ghosts of women once girls Aja Monet somewhere a little girl is reading aloud in the middle of a dirt road. she smiles at the sound of her own voice escaping the spine of a book. she feeds on her hunger to know herself. she has not yet been taught to dim, she sits with the stars beneath her feet, a constellation of things to come. as if a swallowed moon, she glimmers. her head wrap rolls out in a gutter, bare feet scat the earth, the ghosts of women once girls make bridge of the dust dancing behind her, she decorates the ground in dimples she stomps suffering out the spirit hooves drumming the earth in circles she holds gladness in her mouth like a secret teased out of a giggle joy like her sadness overflows she is not the opinions of others she is of visions and imagination somewhere a little girl is reading aloud in the middle of a dirt road. she smiles at the sound of her own voice escaping the spine of a book she is a room full of listening, lending herself to her own words somewhere a deep remembering of what was, she survives all.
August 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Naomi Shihab Nye
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evecastle.bsky.social Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · Apr 16
Next Time Ask More Questions

About this Poem
“We all find ourselves involved in projects or activities that confound us—when or why did I say I would do this? What was I thinking? I needed a poem for myself that said— pause longer. Think again.”
—Naomi Shihab Nye
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Next Time Ask More Questions
Before jumping, remember
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August 16, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Victoria Chang is today’s #HighlightedPoet
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This middle grade verse novel, EUREKA, sounds amazing. Remembering #history is critically important right now.
victoriachang.bsky.social Victoria Chang @victoriachang.bsky.social · Jan 27
Happy pub day to EUREKA, my middle grade verse novel, about the burning down of Chinatown in Eureka, California on February 7, 1884. Thanks to FSG Books for Young Readers.
February 21, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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It took me a while to call myself a poet, and it still feels strange to say it out loud… Then there are moments when I feel like, I’m not quite a poet today! It’s a strange thing.

#poet Abeer Ameer #quote
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September 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Let me tell you a story
about hope: it always starts
and ends with bandages.

—Victoria Chang
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This short #poem is from a longer sequence called ‘Love Letters’ from —The Trees Witness Everything

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February 21, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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#Poet Abeer Ameer

Two Poems
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Abeer Ameer — Bad Lilies
Two poems by Abeer Ameer.
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September 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Aja Monet #HighlightedPoet

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evecastle.bsky.social Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · Mar 1
Poet and Activist Aja Monet #quote - from her interview with Interlocutor that I shared on BlueSky earlier today.

link to source: interlocutorinterviews.com/new-blog/202...
If you're concerned with clean water, fresh water, then that's political. If you're concerned with housing and how you're going to keep a roof over your family's heads, that's political. If you're concerned with education and what's being taught to your children and things that you are concerned that they learn and that they know about, if you're concerned with the environment and the planet and the trees and the birds and the bees and the fishes and the ecosystem that allows us to continue to live, I mean, those are all things that are political, certainly. Aja Monet
August 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Ana Maria Caballero is today’s #HighlightedPoet @anamariacaballero.bsky.social

New collection ‘Material’ is out May 2026 from Trio House Press

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anamariacaballero.bsky.social Ana María Caballero @anamariacaballero.bsky.social · Nov 18
A pleasure to be interviewed by Spanish platform The Artichoke on elevating poetry as a visual artform.
February 14, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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If it kills for a living we call it
a soldier

if it kills but can't speak
we call it a mirror

#quote Franny Choi
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May 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

#quote Naomi Shihab Nye
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August 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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“Whether a plot in a yard or pots in a window, every politically engaged person should have a garden. By politically engaged, I mean everyone with a vested interest in the direction the people on this planet take in relationship to others.”

#Quote Camille T. Dungy
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June 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I have struggled to prove myself into existence.

—Cathy Park Hong,
Minor Feelings: An Asian
American Reckoning

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December 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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#Poem I Once Was a Child by Victoria Chang

@victoriachang.bsky.social

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in China one year everyone got a spinning top

one year everyone got a tap on their shoulders

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www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58602/...
I Once Was a Child
I once was a child am a child am someone's child             not my mother's not my father's the boss       gave us special treatment treatment for…
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February 21, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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Diane Burns, 1956-2006

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Diane Burns: Native American Poet, East Village Prophet - Village Preservation
Native American poet Diane Burns was a luminous, integral fixture of the Downtown arts scene beginning in the 1970s until her death in 2006. Her poetic body of work contains achingly earnest descripti...
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November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM