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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · 23h

So, so grateful to the Neighborhood for welcoming me & my fellow poets for Sukkot & @jaredharel.bsky.social for moderating 🌸🪴🍂

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Pam Yve Simon @pamyve.bsky.social · 1d

Come see an amazing poetry lineup tonight in Brooklyn at 6:30pm for “Poetry of Peculiar Joys”!

Reading & panel host @jaredharel.bsky.social with poets @readinstead.bsky.social @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social Yerra Bergman, Lynn Melnick, and Jason Schneiderman.

www.theneighborhoodbk.org/extra-events...

Poetry of Peculiar Joys: Elegy, Memory, and Epiphany

Featuring

www.theneighborhoodbk.org

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · 3d

Had such a great time at KGB Monday Night :: the series is truly run by the most wonderful poets & people! Enjoyed reading with Hua Xi & Noah Warren despite the jet lag.

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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 7d

I will be in Brooklyn on Wednesday for Poetry of Peculiar Joys, a reading and panel hosted by @jaredharel.bsky.social alongside poets @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social Yerra Bergman, Lynn Melnick and Jason Schneiderman. Come see us at 6:30pm. Register here:

www.theneighborhoodbk.org/extra-events...

Sukkot in the Neighborhood presents Poetry of Peculiar Joys: Elegy, Memory, and Epiphany

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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · 10d

FINAL DAYS to explore poetry & film; free verse; narrative & lyrical time; the sonnet; & mental illness & neurodivergency in these workshops w/ @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @joshuamehigan.bsky.social, Megan Pinto, Alexis Aceves Garcia & @calamityjaz.bsky.social! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

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Glass Poetry Press @glasspoetry.bsky.social · 17d

We're thrilled to announce our 2026 @sundresspub.bsky.social Best of the Net Nominations!

Congrats and good luck Anthony Thomas Lombardi, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social, @wendywisner.bsky.social, Carly Joy Miller, @erinmizrahi.bsky.social, and @icarus-flies.bsky.social!

Nominations

Best of the Net 2026

Anthony Thomas Lombardi
the sparrows, the sparrows

Rosebud Ben-Oni
109Mt :: In Which the Poetic Science of our Collective Self Is— {Past —CONTINUOUS} Continuum

Nominations
Best of the Net 2026

Wendy Wisner
If Mother

Carly Joy Miller
Theater of Inheritance

Nominations
Best of the Net 2026

Erin Mizrahi
Landscape with vanquished apocalypse & central air

Steven Sanchez
Grief Is The Raven

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · 17d

Playing catch up! Reading new work with Noah Warren on October 6th at KGB

Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · Sep 4

Join us at TheNeighborhood: An Urban Center for Jewish Life for a poetry reading for Sukkot: www.theneighborhoodbk.org/extra-events...

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Community Building Art Works @missionbelonging.bsky.social · Aug 31

✨✨We're excited to welcome back @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social for our October writing workshop, held in partnership with our friends at Strathmore!
Join us on Thursday, October 16th at 7 PM on Zoom for “PARDON MY HEART”: Celebrating Unapologetic Candor!
🚀Learn more & sign up: cbaw.org/event/pardon...

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · Aug 25

Thrilled to be back at @brooklynpoets.bsky.social for the fall & teaching my workshop on Poetry & Melodrama in Film. Online, Tuesdays 6:30 - 9:30 PM, October 14- November 18. Link in bio!

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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · Aug 20

Explore poetic address; experimental form; writing what you need to; poetry, film & melodrama; and honing your poetic voice in these workshops w/ @lhiton.bsky.social, Anastacia-Renee, @taraskurtu.bsky.social, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social & @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social! brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · Aug 13

Returning to Writing Workshops with my multi-genre online workshop for "Threads: Writing Dreamscape, Writing Disaster" How do we balance discovery with a larger responsibility to the future? Begins 9/10: writingworkshops.com/collections/...

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Brooklyn Poets @brooklynpoets.bsky.social · Aug 4

Early registration is now open for our fall workshops, online and in-person, ft. Angel Nafis, @robertwoodlynn.bsky.social, @taraskurtu.bsky.social, @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social & more! Through August 17, members save $40 and nonmembers save $25 on all workshops at brooklynpoets.org/workshops/all

Poetry Workshops — Brooklyn Poets

Build your poetic craft and community in our small, intensive workshops taught by award-winning poets, both online and in person at 144 Montague Street in historic Brooklyn Heights!

brooklynpoets.org

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · Jul 8

New Atomic Sonnet (Scandium) in The Malahat Review ⚛️

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · Jun 26

Honored to be the judge for the 2025 Gulf Coast Journal Barthelme Prize in Short Prose. A prize of $1,000 and publication in Gulf Coast for a piece of short prose or prose poetry. See link for more details:

gulfcoastajournalofliteratureandfinearts.submittable.com/submit?utm_c...

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · Jun 19

Just DM’ed you!

Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · Jun 19

Still have two spots open 🤗 :: & DM me if you are interested in getting critiqued and we can discuss rates!

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · Jun 18

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thrilled to announce my forthcoming collection, THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU (Alice James Books, 2027)

A sequel to If This Is the Age We End Discovery, this new work reveals the possibilities of tomorrow already here, as a mysterious, extraterrestrial presence slowly emerges…

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Alice James Books @alicejamesbooks.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thrilled to welcome @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social‬ back to Alice James Books for her newest collection, THE LAST GREAT ADVENTURE IS YOU, out June 2027 🙌
Expansive poems on memory, theory & time.
🔗 buff.ly/CEUXRXc

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · Jun 17

3 new Atomic Sonnets over at Sunday Salon NYC ~ highly recommended their reading series too. Thanks to Nita Noveno & peeps there; two of the sonnets are dedicated to Holly Burd & Holly Zhou ✴️

sundaysalon.com/2025/06/18ar...

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Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social · Jun 17

Shenandoah’s 75th anniversary double issue just dropped! www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/#poetry Amazing poems by @janezwart.bsky.social @sallypoet.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @carlosaglive.bsky.social @rosswhite.com @casswhit.bsky.social @darleneanitascott.bsky.social 1/2

Volume 74, Numbers 1 & 2

Shenandoah has been publishing great writing for 75 years. Located at Washington and Lee University, the magazine is part of the English Department and is a tool used to teach students the art and cra...

www.shenandoahliterary.org

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · Jun 16

Thank you so much to Shenandoah Literary Magazine for including my Atomic Sonnet for lead in their 75th Anniversary Issue ✴️

www.shenandoahliterary.org/74-1-2/82-pb...

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Rosebud Ben-Oni @rosebudbenoni.bsky.social · May 21

Back at @BrooklynPoets this summer & teaching my Humor & Poetry workshop: utilizing satire, absurdism, surrealism and wordplay; we’ll dedicate a week to the idea of “poetry improv” to free your spontaneous, comedic lyrical self:

brooklynpoets.org/workshop/p/h...

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Nick Sturm @nicksturm.bsky.social · May 20

Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.

Black and white photograph of Alice Notley in Bolinas, California, early 1972.

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