Rosebud Poetry Reading and Q&A, Thurs 10/28 @ 4pm
Thursday, Oct 14, 2021Rosebud Poetry Reading and Q&A
Free Virtual Event | Register in Advance | TINY.CC/WGSS1028
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, which appears online in Black Warrior Review (2020), is part of a larger future project called The Atomic Sonnets, which she began in 2019, 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 poem "Dancing with Kiko on the Moon" was recently featured in Tracy K. Smith's "The Slowdown" podcast. Rosebud lives in New York City where she teaches poetry workshops at Catapult, The Speakeasy Project and UCLA Writers' Program online. She writes weekly for The Kenyon Review blog.
Join queer Latinx Jewish poet Rosebud Ben-Oni for a reading of her award-winning poetry following by a Q&A with the artist. Sponsored by the Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, co-sponsored by Jewish Studies, the Studies of the Americas Iniative, and the Creative Writing Program.
About the Author: Born to a Mexican mother and Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winnder of the 2019 Alice James aware for "This Is This Is the Age We End Discovery(March 2021) which received a starred review in booklist, and the author of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS (Get Fresh Books, 2019). She is a recipient of a 2021 City Arts Corps Grant, a 2021 Queens Arts Fund Frant from the Queens Council for the Arts, a 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow.
