Notes On The Return To The Island

In this new collection Notes On The Return To The Island, Bonafide Rojas pays tribute, honors family & puts the lens on the current state of Puerto Rico. From United States colonialism to the creation of a fiscal control board due to the 70 billion dollar debt to his parents relationship with Puerto Rico. Rojas has presented a rare perspective of both “Aquí/Allá (here/there) of The Nuyorican experience in The Puerto Rican Diaspora. Notes On The Return To The Island will show you what’s happening inside Puerto Rico & allow you how they see the world staring at them.

Bonafide Rojas is the author of When The City Sleeps, Renovatio & Pelo Bueno. He's the bandleader for The Mona Passage & has been published in: Manteca!, Chorus: The Literary Mixtape, Bum Rush The Page, Role Call, Lost Orphan Project, Learn Then Burn (Pt. 1& 2), TheThePoetry Series, Me No Habla Con Acento, The Centro Journal, The Hostos Review, The Acentos Review, Palabras & appeared on Def Poetry Jam & Spitting Ink. He has been written up in The NY Times, NY Daily News, Culture Trip's 10 NYC based Latino Artists to know, The Centro & La Respuesta Media. He has performed at Lincoln Center, The Brooklyn Museum, El Museo Del Barrio, Bowery Ballroom, The Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, Rotterdam Arts Center, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Busboys & Poets & Festival De La Palabra. The Mona Passage second EP is due out in 2017. He currently lives in the Bronx.