Bonafide Rojas's Page

bonafide rojas (10/08/77) is a poet, musician and author of pelo bueno: a day in the life of a nuyorican poet (dark souls press, 2006); has made 5 chapbooks: a day in the life, the brief history of, tragically beautiful, holler! & when the city sleeps (pt. i). he is the bandleader/vocalist/guitarist for the band The Mona Passage, a collective experiment of puerto rican & dominican musicians who challenge the status quo on what music is puerto rican & dominican.

he is the 2002 slam this! champion and has been on two national poetry slam teams, nyc/union square 2002 & wicker park 2003. he has appeared in russell simmon's "def poetry jam" season 4 and he has been published in the anthologies: bum rush the page: a def poetry jam (three rivers press, 2002), rolecall: "a generational anthology of social and political black literature and art(third world press, 2002), the centro journal (hunter college, 2001), blu magazine's puerto rico issue, columbia's roots and culture, nyu's calabash journal and was featured on the cds nuyorican dreams, yemaya y ochun, the freedom song and new skool poetics.

www.myspace.com/themonapassage