About this episode

aja monet discusses her journey from a Slam Poet Champion to a Grammy-nominated recording artist.

The day between her Carnegie Hall debut, and releasing her critically hailed second album, the color of rain, the poet, lyricist, and activist, aja monet sat down with Carmel Holt to discuss her journey from growing up in New York, becoming a Slam Poet Champion as a teenager, to becoming an award-winning published poet, and Grammy-nominated recording artist.

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