Testimony
Vox Media Black Environmental Literature Workshop Participant – “Ashia was an engaging facilitator who made space for everyone to share their thoughts. I appreciated how they used different pieces of writing from well known Black writers to guide discussion.”
Donika Kelly, Reader for the Just Buffalo Poetry Fellowship – “Ajani’s poems are tactile, textured, essential. Firmly wrought, they bear the weight of American history, the possibilities of hope, and the call for community. What a gift to spend time with this poet’s work.”
Mahtem Shiferraw – “…the poet offers us a space to reclaim that freedom, to persist in our own making, in our small exodus, without naming our perpetrators; where, for a moment, we too can feel the cool air wrapped around our Black bodies—and feel free to exhale.”
Frontier Poetry – “Ashia Ajani’s new poem reaches for the belly, for fullness.”
Phillip B. Williams, author of Mutiny – “Truly one of the best conversations I’ve ever had about my own work happen with Ashia Ajani”
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