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An Evening of Poetry with Rosebud Ben-Oni and Tom Healy

Join Book Culture LIC on Tuesday, November 5th at 6:30pm as we partner with Poets of Queens Reading Series for a special poetry reading with Rosebud Ben-Oni and Tom Healy.

Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of the 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). She is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org, The Poetry Review (UK), Tin House, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, TriQuarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, Hunger Mountain, The Adroit Journal, The Southeast Review, North American Review, Salamander, Poetry Northwest, among others. Her poem “Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark” was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, and published by The Kenyon Review Online.  She writes for The Kenyon Reviewblog. She is currently editing a special chemistry poetry portfolio for Pleiades, and is finishing a series called The Atomic Sonnets, in honor of the Periodic Table’s 150th Birthday. Find her at 7TrainLove.org.

Tom Healy is the author of three books of poems, including WHAT THE RIGHT HAND KNOWS, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the LA Times Book Award. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at the University of Bridgeport and curator at the Bass Museum in Miami.  He chairs the O, Miami Poetry Festival and is a trustee of PEN America.











When: Tue., Nov. 5, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Where: Book Culture LIC
26-09 Jackson Ave.
718-440-3120
Price: Free
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Join Book Culture LIC on Tuesday, November 5th at 6:30pm as we partner with Poets of Queens Reading Series for a special poetry reading with Rosebud Ben-Oni and Tom Healy.

Rosebud Ben-Oni is the winner of the 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). She is a recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, POETS.org, The Poetry Review (UK), Tin House, Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, TriQuarterly, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, Hunger Mountain, The Adroit Journal, The Southeast Review, North American Review, Salamander, Poetry Northwest, among others. Her poem “Poet Wrestling with Angels in the Dark” was commissioned by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in New York City, and published by The Kenyon Review Online.  She writes for The Kenyon Reviewblog. She is currently editing a special chemistry poetry portfolio for Pleiades, and is finishing a series called The Atomic Sonnets, in honor of the Periodic Table’s 150th Birthday. Find her at 7TrainLove.org.

Tom Healy is the author of three books of poems, including WHAT THE RIGHT HAND KNOWS, which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the LA Times Book Award. He is Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities at the University of Bridgeport and curator at the Bass Museum in Miami.  He chairs the O, Miami Poetry Festival and is a trustee of PEN America.

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