Sponsored by the Ulster Community College Foundation, The Poetry Forum is an annual event which brings well-known and award-winning poets to SUNY Ulster for intimate question and answer sessions, as well as a special reading of their poetry. In 2007, the program was renamed the Ellen Robbins Poetry Forum to honor the memory of Ellen Robbins (1952-2006) who was on the faculty at SUNY Ulster from 1994 until 2006, and Chair of the English department, 2002-2006.

Kim Wozencraft, author of several critically acclaimed novels and professor of English at SUNY Ulster, will interview Monet and moderate the audience discussion. 

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

10:15 - 11:30
College Lounge, Vanderlyn Hall

Kim Wozencraft, author of several critically acclaimed novels and professor of English at SUNY Ulster, will interview Monet and moderate the audience discussion. 

Aja Monet was the youngest individual to win the Nuyorican Poet’s Café Grand Slam title at the age of 19. She is recognized for combining her spellbinding voice and powerful imagery on stage, captivating audiences in the United States, France, the UK, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Bermuda, and Cuba.Monet has performed at the Town Hall Theater, the Apollo Theater, the United Nations in New York City, and the NAACP’s Barack Obama Inaugural Event in Washington, D.C. In 2014, she was awarded the YWCA of the City of New York’s ONE TO WATCH AWARD—an award for Monet’s work to honor women under the age of 30 who exemplify the mission of the organization, to empower women and eliminate racism.

Learn more at ajamonet.com.

Previous Poets include: Tina Chang, Richard Blanco, Jorie Graham, Michael Dickman, Ted Kooser, Charles Simic, Naomi Shihab Nye, Yusef Komunyakaa, Jane Hirshfield, Michael McClure, Marge Piercy, Kenneth Koch, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, Galway Kinnell, Donald Hall, Maxine Kumin, Carolyn Forché, Sharon Olds