Rosebud Ben-Oni
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 (March 2021) 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 grant from the Queens Council for the Arts, a 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a 2013 CantoMundo Fellow. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Guernica, and The Adroit Journal, among others. In 2017, 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 lives in New York City, where she teaches poetry workshops at Catapult, The Speakeasy Project and UCLA Writers’ Program online; she also writes weekly for The Kenyon Review blog. Source
r u dense ? {I'm the Baddest Kiss}
If there’s one boss left, it’s not you {on this stage}.
Aqua regia, step off. Come caustic, creep corrosion
& stay salty, my rainbows {ro the gods ur :: one hit :: hon}. My
iris will weather & true whatever is burning up you. I bless
a compass with its bearings & the crucible I keep unhurried
& sane when under fever & fury of flame. I’m the iron lore
that celestials this molten core. Chasmed the Cretaceous
& shook all legion & sky & sea— :: BOOMED your beloved
dinosaurs & unknown beasts :: Believe a lot of comet I did
not cherry bomb in peace. {How I still brittle that— kiss}.
Why expose me now {‘tis not my rage}:: I’m a precious pinch,
much more mint than platinum’s greatest thick, I don’t need
to lay it on. I {for when you go amiss} I {c’mon, don’t
quit} am the only boss {make a wish}— on :: the :: stage.
Published:
2020
Length:
Regular
Literary Movements:
Contemporary
Anthology Years:
Themes:
Persona Poems
Science & Climate
Literary Devices:
Alliteration
the repetition of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words appearing in succession
Anthimeria
the replacement of one part of speech for another, often referred to as a “functional shift.”
Interrupted Clause
a word group (a statement, question, or exclamation) that interrupts the flow of a sentence and is usually set off by commas, dashes, or parentheses
Metaphor
a comparison between two unrelated things through a shared characteristic
Onomatopoeia
A word that, when spoken aloud, has a sound that is associated with the thing or action being named.
Slant Rhyme
A rhyme where the words have similar sounds in their stressed syllables.