Rosebud Ben-Oni

Rosebud Ben-oni is a Latina-Jewish American poet and writer.[1]

Rosebud Ben-Oni
NationalityAmerican
Alma materNew York University,
University of Michigan,
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
GenrePoetry

She is the winner of the 2019 Alice James Award for If This is the Age We End Discovery, forthcoming in 2021.[2] Her second collection, turn around, BRXGHT XYXS, was published by Get Fresh LLC in Fall 2019, and won the Bisexual Poetry Award at the 8th Annual Bisexual Book Awards from the Bi Writers Association[3]. The Chicago Review of Books called turn around, BRXGHT XYXS "a book-length love poem to the self that would make Whitman both proud and blush. Ben-Oni’s poems are ecstatically and unabashedly feminist, queer, punk, Latinx, and Jewish, making hers a unique and vital voice for our times.” Jewish Currents states that "the propulsion and scope of Ben-Oni's poems— engaging everything from biblical figures to '80s music— give each word an exhilarating amount of power... turn around, BRXGHT XYXS audaciously owns its otherness, traveling the world—and the universe—without losing sight of the United States we now inhabit." .[4][5][6][7]

Ben-Oni was awarded poetry fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in 2014 and CantoMundo in 2013.[8][9]

Life

Ben-Oni graduated from New York University. She was a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan, and a Horace Goldsmith Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[10]

She is a former Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. In 2017, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum commissioned her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark."[11] She writes weekly for the blog of The Kenyon Review.[12] She currently lives in New York City, teaches online poetry workshops for the University of California, Los Angeles and Catapult, and has also taught at Poets House. [13][14]

Selected work

Books
  • If This is the Age We End Discovery. Alice James Books, 2021. (Forthcoming)
  • turn around, BRXGHT XYXS. Get Fresh LLC, 2019. ISBN 9780998935898
  • Solecism: poems. Virtual Artists Collective, 2013. ISBN 9780944048504, OCLC 829764410

Chapbooks

Poems
gollark: Probably a pun on strinŋs.
gollark: Apparently some text editors use "ropes" as a data structure for text.
gollark: I mean, Gates is okay.
gollark: Zuckerberg is not a desirable goal.
gollark: Opposite of basic.

References
  1. "Rosebud Ben-Oni". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2017-09-18. Retrieved 2017-09-18.CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. "2019 Alice James Award Winner Announced". Alice James Books. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  3. "The Bi Writers Association - Finalists & Winners". www.biwriters.org. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  4. Melnick, Lynn (2019-08-28). "Remaking the Canon in Our Image". Jewish Currents. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  5. "A Lesson in Loving Our Monsters: A Review of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS by Rosebud Ben-Oni". Queen Mob's Tea House. 2019-09-29. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  6. Frame, Anthony (2019-12-04). "10 Great Poetry Collections You May Have Missed". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  7. "REVIEWS — RHINO —". RHINO. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  8. ""NYFA Proudly Announces the 2014 Artists' Fellowships Awardees."". Nyfa.org. 23 January 2015.
  9. "CantoMundo". www.cantomundo.org. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  10. Foundation, Poetry (2019-10-03). "Rosebud Ben-Oni". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  11. "A Night of Poetry to Take Place at 9/11 Museum". National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  12. "Rosebud BenOni - The Kenyon Review". www.kenyonreview.org. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  13. Poets, Academy of American. "About Rosebud Ben-Oni | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  14. "Take Five: Q & A with Rosebud Ben-Oni on Verse & the Multiverse". Poets House. 2019-02-11. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  15. "Issue Twenty-Three: Rosebud Ben-Oni | The Adroit Journal". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
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