Rochelle Bass Owens (born April 2, 1936 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet and playwright.

She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, then studied at the New School for Social Research and the University of Montreal.

As a poet, she contributed greatly to the St. Marks Poetry Project and was a founding participant in Mickey Ruskin and Bill Mackey's Cafe Deux Megots on 7th Street in the East Village.

It raised some controversy, and was banned in Toronto and called a "lust and bestiality play" by a newspaper in Edinburgh.

She read her poems at The Poetry Project at St. Marks Church In-the-Bowery in New York City, on the same bill that included Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso.