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All’s Fair in Love and Optimus Prime

Two poems by Rosebud Ben-Oni

All’s Fair in Love and Optimus Prime

Editor’s note: These poems are best viewed on a desktop.

On the Wisdom of Optimus Prime

—(1986 & beyond)

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On the Legacy of Tron

—(1982 & beyond)

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About the Author

Rosebud Ben-Oni is the author of several collections, including the forthcoming The Last Great Adventure is You (Alice James Books, 2027), a sequel to If This is the Age We End Discovery (2021), which won the Alice James Award and was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Her work has been commissioned by Paramount, the National September 11th Memorial, and the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Queens Arts Fund, Cafe Royal Foundation, Queens Council on the Arts, and CantoMundo. Her work appears in POETRY, APR, The Writer's Chronicle, Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of America, The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, and Tin House, among others.

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