Poet Aja Monet To Appear At Chewstick Tonight
American poet Aja Monet will share the stage with local poets Ron Lightbourne, Yesha Townsend and the ChewSLAM Teen Poetry group at the Chewstick Foundation’s Neo-Griot lounge tonight [June 27]. The show start at 8 p.m. and admission is $15.
“This is a night that is not to be missed as it will be filled with a velvety smooth delivery of conscious poetry of the highest calibre that is guaranteed to soother the senses,” said a Chewstick spokesperson.
“Ms Monet is a prolific poet, who for six years, has served as a youth mentor, poetry mentor, and poetry slam coach for Urban Word NYC, working with at-risk youth in inner-city New York and has for three years worked with Odyssey House as poetry/performance program coordinator, teacher, and mentor.
“Additionally, using poetry as a therapeutic art form, she teaches summers at Omega Institute, a center for holistic studies in Rhinebeck, New York. She’s a board member of Poetic Justice non-profit at Lawrence Road Middle School in Uniondale, New York.”
Entry is payable at the door or online at www.ptix.bm. Call 292 2439 for further details.
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