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 (March 2021).[2][3] Her second collection, turn around, BRXGHT XYXS, was published by Get Fresh LLC in Fall 2019,[4] and won the Bisexual Poetry Award at the 8th Annual Bisexual Book Awards from the Bi Writers Association.[5] "Matarose lives in Queens, New York, and she’s a queen herself," wrote Dorothy Chan in her review of turn around, BRXGHT XYXS in Poetry Magazine, "Ben-Oni’s speaker constantly gives us meta: she basks in the cultural references of her childhood, yet she transcends them. If popular culture serves as commentary that combines the politics and social critiques of a time period, then the poet takes this up ten notches, presenting popular culture from both her coming-of-age youth and the present moment in time....I read turn around, BRXGHT XYXS as a poetic striptease."[6]

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." .[7][8][9][10]

Her chapbook 20 Atomic Sonnets was published online from Black Warrior Review; Ben-Oni states she wanted "to make 20 Atomic Sonnets free [and] available online, as to reach as many people as possible in the time of this (Covid-19) pandemic....this chapbook is part of a larger project that will be a full-length collection in the future." In her review for Rhino, Dona Vorreyer writes: "“Who knew that one could feel sorry for an electron, be smitten with the bad-boy toxicity of Fluorine, commiserate with the unstable loneliness of Cesium, or swoon over the sensuality of Gallium?…This chapbook renews a wonder in science… With its tour-de-force attention to detail, its enticing sounds and rhythms and its clever and astute references, 20 Atomic Sonnets leaves the reader wanting more. And hopefully with many more elements in the periodic table, this set of sonnets will only be the beginning.”[11] Leslie Archibald states in Interstellar Flight Press: "“I wanted to review this collection of sonnets because I wanted to fall in love. I wanted to fall in love with the sonnet again and I did… In 20 Atomic Sonnets, the unique structure coupled with the author’s use of slant and embedded rhyme creates the sonnet aesthetic without overpowering the text…Ben-Oni pays homage to nineties metal poets by relating certain elements to groups like Nirvana, STP, and Bon Jovi.”[12]

Ben-Oni was awarded poetry fellowships from The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in 2014 and CantoMundo in 2013.[13][14]

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.[15]

Her poem "Dancing with Kiko on the Moon" was featured on Tracy K. Smith's The Slowdown[16]. In 2017, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum commissioned her poem "Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark."[17] She writes weekly for the blog of The Kenyon Review.[18] 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.[19][20] She is a former Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts.

Selected work

Books
  • If This is the Age We End Discovery. Alice James Books, 2021.[21]
  • turn around, BRXGHT XYXS. Get Fresh LLC, 2019. ISBN 9780998935898
  • Solecism: poems. Virtual Artists Collective, 2013. ISBN 9780944048504, OCLC 829764410

Chapbooks

Poems

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. "If This Is the Age We End Discovery". Alice James Books. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  4. Corp, Get Fresh Books Publishing A. Non-Profit. "Turn Around Brxght XYXS". Get Fresh Books Publishing. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  5. "The Bi Writers Association - Finalists & Winners". www.biwriters.org. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  6. Foundation, Poetry (2020-12-01). "Over the You About You by Dorothy Chan". Poetry Magazine. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  7. Melnick, Lynn (2019-08-28). "Remaking the Canon in Our Image". Jewish Currents. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  8. "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.
  9. Frame, Anthony (2019-12-04). "10 Great Poetry Collections You May Have Missed". Chicago Review of Books. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  10. "REVIEWS — RHINO —". RHINO. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  11. "REVIEWS — RHINO —". RHINO. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  12. Archibald, Leslie (2020-10-08). "20 Atomic Sonnets: An Homage to Grunge, Metal and AP Chemistry". Medium. Retrieved 2020-12-02.
  13. "NYFA Proudly Announces the 2014 Artists' Fellowships Awardees". Nyfa.org. 23 January 2015.
  14. "CantoMundo". www.cantomundo.org. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  15. Foundation, Poetry (2019-10-03). "Rosebud Ben-Oni". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  16. "451: Dancing with Kiko on the Moon". www.slowdownshow.org. Retrieved 2020-08-22.
  17. "A Night of Poetry to Take Place at 9/11 Museum". National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  18. "Rosebud BenOni - The Kenyon Review". www.kenyonreview.org. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
  19. Poets, Academy of American. "About Rosebud Ben-Oni | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
  20. "Take Five: Q & A with Rosebud Ben-Oni on Verse & the Multiverse". Poets House. 2019-02-11. Retrieved 2019-10-16.
  21. Ben-Oni, Rosebud. If this is the age we end discovery. Farmington, ME. ISBN 978-1-948579-15-5. OCLC 1143646025.
  22. "Issue Twenty-Three: Rosebud Ben-Oni | The Adroit Journal". The Adroit Journal. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
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