Poetry Reading
Slamming Open the Door
by
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno
| When: | Thursday, November 19th, 2009 |
| Time: | 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. |
| Where: | Bryn Mawr College, Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Katharine Lower Conference Room, 300 Airdale Rd., Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 |
| RSVP: | 610-520-2605 or email probinson@brynmawr.edu |
| FREE and open to the public. | |
| CEu's: | 2 continuing education units available-Processing Fee of $15.00 |
Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno is an award-winning author and poet who received the Beatrice Hawley Award for her book of poetry, Slamming Open the Door, published by Alice James Books in April, 2009. Slamming Open the Door is a collection of poems recounting the true story of the murder of her daughter, Leidy Bonanno, in 2003.
Bonanno's heartrending collection of poems inspires both compassion for and awe of the human spirit. Of all the losses we may be asked to bear, the murder of one’s child certainly is one of the most terrible. Bonanno’s poems focus keenly on seeking justice but transcending judgment while grieving loss, celebrating love, and finding healing.
In July, 2009, Kathleen was interviewed by Terry Gross for NPR’s nationally syndicated Fresh Air. Slamming Open the Door is currently in its third printing, and was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review in April, 2009. Two of the poems from Slamming were nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
David Kirby in the New York Times Book Review says, "Readers will have to step outside of a familiar, comforting tradition of poetic grief while reading this book ... to read this book is not to behold a completed work but to stand onstage with a writer who finds herself in the middle of a story in which she has been reluctantly cast."
Books will be made available for purchase at the event for $16. Fifty percent of the proceeds from the sale of the book, Slamming Open the Door, will go towards The Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia, www.avpphila.org/.
A light supper will be provided and available at 6:30 p.m. Poetry reading starts at 7:00 p.m.
Two continuing education credits associated to this lecture. CEU forms will be made available at the registration table and a ceu processing fee of $15.00 collected the day of the event.
Hosted by The Center for Child and Family Well-being at
Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work & Social Research
Special thanks to The G. Mildred and A. Foster Scott Foundation for providing funding for this Lecture Series and bringing a diverse range of speakers to the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research.