Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno’s book, Slamming open the Door (Alice James), a memoir in poetry form about the murder of her daughter, was among the ten best-selling books of poetry in the U.S. in 2009. Bonanno has been the Founding Director of Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts, in Philadelphia, PA since 2011. She has […]
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno: The Pool
My fifteen-year old son, adopted from Chile, pedals his bike back from the pool, says some boys just called him a Spic, and my brain explodes— Ping, ping, says my brain. Wait! says Louey. I get in the car, gun the gas pedal, stomp past two teenage lifeguards at the gate, on my way to […]
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno: 30th Street Station
Sweet old man in a tweed cap soft shoes, soft brown skin, says, Do you need a cab? Yes I say and my heart is laughing; this is how I get sometimes. You look like my second grade teacher Mrs. Richmond, I always loved Mrs. Richmond, he says. He ushers me to a silver Lexus. […]