Bonafide Rojas

Bonafide Rojas is the author of “Renovatio, When The City Sleeps & Pelo Bueno”. He was born & raised in The Bronx, the founder of Grand Concourse Press & considers pizza the greatest food ever created. He’s a Yankee fan for life & loves The Beatles & Jimi Hendrix. He has appeared on “Def Poetry Jam”, the poetry documentary “Spitting Ink” & has been published in numerous anthologies & journals from “Saul William’s Presents chorus”, “bum rush the page”, “role call”, “learn then burn”, “me no habla con acento”, the centro journal, the hostos review, the acentos review, the calabash journal, letras, & palabras. He has performed internationally at venues, colleges, bars & random stages: Wheaton College, Joe’s Pub, Howard University, Busboys & Poets, New York University, Galeria De La Raza, Nuyorican Poet’s Café, Rotterdam Arts Center, London’s “Kid, I Wrote Back”, UC-Berkeley, Berkeley, St. Mary’s College, Da Poetry Lounge, El Museo De Barrio, Pregones Theatre, Bronx, Caribbean Culture Center, Lincoln Center, New York, Museum of The American Indian, Bowery Poetry Club, Amherst College, UW-Madison, Chicago Historical Society, LouderArts, The Acentos Poetry Series, University of Illinois-Chicago, Columbia University, Lehman College, Binghamton U., Syracuse University, & Mt. Holyoke. He is the co-bandleader of experimental rock band The Mona Passage & a founder of the art group VIKUBO.

He is a member of the Canvas of Words Poetry Tour that kicks off January 2015.