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.
Everything got worse in New York except my jump shot. Though I looked the part — white, six foot and fair featured, like some towhead from the Midwest — shooting was not my ticket on the court. In the small school league in Washington where I had starred, I got my points going to the […]
Red leather and chrome trap my eyes. I could be in the kitchen washing dishes or helping my mom cook dinner. Maybe walking home from my best friend Lynda’s house or reading a book in the backyard. When I think about the white Cadillac, I feel happy. When the Cadillac is parked in the driveway […]
It was the start of another 90-something degrees day. The sixth floor bedroom I shared with my seven-year old brother and five-year old sister on Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights was sweltering. Our apartment was on the top floor directly under the building’s roof, which drew in the sun’s heat with a vengeance, through its […]
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