Kate Bernadette Benedict
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Summer of ’68
From Castle Hill &Lower Manhattan &South Ferry about 6 train, first job, operator, switchboardPublished on: 09/30/2018
Kate Bernadette Benedict grew up in the Bronx, in the neighborhoods of Throgs Neck and Castle Hill. She resided on Manhattan's Upper West Side for some 38 years and now lives in Riverdale with her husband John and a frisky tomcat named Finn. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently Earthly Use: New and Selected Poems (2015), and she has edited and published the online poetry journals Umbrella and Tilt-a-Whirl. Kate has held positions both temporary and permanent at more than one hundred corporations and nonprofits in New York City. Retired now, her main fields for paying work were book publishing and banking.
One afternoon this summer I was on the subway. All was normal. Well, except that we are in a pandemic, which makes venturing down into NYC’s netherworld — one with poor ventilation and tons of non-mask wearers – feel like I am putting my life in my overly sanitized hands. It all seemed surreal. The […]
I was only five, but I knew my mom and dad were in court that day fighting over custody rights. The rainy gray outside—plus the turmoil of yelling and crying, nighttime stirrings, and mornings waking up in different rooms or houses or cars, and not understanding what was going on or where exactly was home—had […]
I was scrolling through Twitter after midnight a couple of weeks ago when I read that the photographer and New York personality Ricky Powell had died. The news hit me because as kids we’d spent a lot of time together at the 14th Street Y in afterschool programs. Biddy Basketball and Sportsman’s Clinic, and the […]
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