Having been born and raised amongst cultural mavericks in urban New York City, art became a motivating force very early in my life. I'm a Nuyorican girl born on Museum Mile/5th Avenue, right across the sreet from Central Park, my oasis. While raised in the Bronx and Spanish Harlem, I spent summers soaking in the energy and flavor of Puerto Rico.
By age 7 I was scribbling my thoughts into marble notebooks, by 17 I was pouring the musings ruminated upon in times of angst and exhilaration into captive audiences. My emotions and memories gurgle onto the page, the screen & even napkins when necessary. Scribbles that have paved the path to this day.
I live artfully, enjoying the light and color in my daily walk. Words rise, bubble up, choke and press out of me. I write to connect, to understand and to speak to the part of you that lives in me, to search for the part of me that lives in you.
I've recently shared my words at such venues as the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Webster Hall, La Pregunta Cafe, Poetry con Salsa, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center, Camaradas el Barrio for Beats, Eats & Words, Julia de Burgos Cultural Center for the Piri Thomas Tribute, The Hudson Theater at the Millennium Hotel, The Notice Lounge as the feature for the Capicu Poetry & Cultural Showcase, Stony Brook and the living room of Roberto 'Plena' Irizarry (Irizarry Santamaria) & Bonafide Rojas during the 1791 Bookwarming Party. Good times...
Come back soon to keep abreast of upcoming performances & for the opportunity to purchase my first publication, "Musings and Scribbles"
~ Amor y Poesia
Jani 'Bomba' Rose
~ Jani Rosado ~ Jani Rose ~ Bomba Rose ~