Summer's not over yet. Come hear Rosebud Ben-Oni, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, David Tomas Martinez and Yesenia Montilla read from their work at Molasses Books
Monday, August 17th, 2015, 8 PM
About the poets:
Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a CantoMundo Fellow. She was a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan, a Horace Goldsmith Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a graduate of the Women’s Work Lab at New Perspectives Theater i...
Summer's not over yet. Come hear Rosebud Ben-Oni, Darrel Alejandro Holnes, David Tomas Martinez and Yesenia Montilla read from their work at Molasses Books
Monday, August 17th, 2015, 8 PM
About the poets:
Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a CantoMundo Fellow. She was a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan, a Horace Goldsmith Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a graduate of the Women’s Work Lab at New Perspectives Theater in NYC. She is the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013) and an Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Arts & Letters, Bayou, Puerto del Sol, among others. Find her Facebook, Twitter and at 7TrainLove.org
Darrel Alejandro Holnes is the co-author of PRIME: Poetry & Conversations, the co-editor of Happiness, The Delight-Tree: An Anthology of Contemporary International Poetry in honour of the International Day of Happiness. His poetry has been featured Poetry Magazine, Callaloo, in the Best American Experimental Writing anthology and elsewhere in print and online. He teaches at New York University and works with the United Nations.
David Tomas Martinez's work has been published or is forth coming in Poetry Magazine, Plough Shares, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Academy of American Poet's Poem-A-Day, Poetry Foundation's PoetryNow, and others. His debut collection of poetry, Hustle, was released in 2014 by Sarabande Books, which won the New England Book Festival's prize in poetry, the Devil's Kitchen Reading Award, and honorable mention in the Antonio Cisneros Del Moral prize. He is the 2015 winner of the Verlaine Poetry Prize from Inprint.
Yesenia Montilla is a New York City poet with Afro-Caribbean roots. Her poetry has appeared in the Chapbook For The Crowns Of Your Head, as well as the literary journals: 5AM, Adanna, The Wide Shore and others. She received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. Her first collection of poetry The Pink Box is forthcoming from Willow Books in Fall 201