Description
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Jewish Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2019 Bisexual Book Award for Poetry. "Rosebud Ben-Oni is an incomparable poet with a voice like no one else. Her poetic work hails from the crossroads of countries and culture, tongues and taboo. Ben-Oni's poetic work hails. At play is a potent poetics of vortices of word and act, love y Justicia. She speaks to Latinidad in 'having hope / in our pop-up whit of the world.... / to never having really left Jerusalem.... / To the hours we (make) horses between nightfall / and war...' TURN AROUND BRXGHT XYXS in the house!"—Lorna Dee Cervantes
Author Bio
Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of 2019 Alice James Award for If This Is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021, and the author of TURN AROUND, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019); her chapbook 20 Atomic Sonnets is forthcoming from Black Warrior Review, and is part of a larger project called The Atomic Sonnets, which she wrote in honor of the Periodic Table's 150th Birthday. She is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org, Poetry Society of America (PSA), The Poetry Review (UK), Tin House, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature's Recommended Reading, Hayden's Ferry Review, Ecotone, The Missouri Review, The Journal, Hunger Mountain, The Adroit Journal, The Southeast Review, Salamander, Poetry Northwest, Arts & Letters, North American Review, among others. Recently, her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark" was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in NYC, and published by The Kenyon Review Online. She writes weekly for The Kenyon Review blog. She has an essay forthcoming in Halimah Marcus's new anthology HORSE GIRLS (Harper Perennial, 2021). She's part of the QUEENSBOUND project, founded by KC Trommer, and took part in The Onassis Foundation's ENTER exhibition. She lives in New York City, where she teaches poetry workshops at Catapult, The Speakeasy Project and UCLA Writers' Program online.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA