Kate Bernadette Benedict
Bio
Website
Stories
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.
Our login is down. Click on this story for info on how to submit by email.
I first met Ari Horwitz in front of a pizzeria near the George Washington Bridge Bus Terminal in 1978. I wasn’t in the habit of talking to people I didn’t know, but Ari was about my age, mid-20s, and we seemed to have an immediate psychic connection. Ari, it turned out, lived with a roommate […]
I am in my apartment in Woodside, Queens, reading C.S. Lewis. It is my first apartment that isn’t school housing, and I feel like a woman born again: reading, writing, thinking, manic with ideas and desires in a space all of my own. Though I am not Catholic- I’m technically Jewish but not in any […]
Chestnuts bloom in Paris Memory undoes me. I am wistfully envious of folks whose past unfurls behind them with focus and drama, like a highway seen from the back of a childhood station wagon, or a vast Midwestern plain viewed from an airplane window above. The clarity of their vision, its narrative continuity and expanse, seem […]
site map | about | RSS feed | top of page | all materials © 2023 MrBellersNeighborhood | programming & design by Foliovision