by Kathleen Widdoes Yesterday, after visiting my family in my small hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, I took the train back to New York City, my chosen home. Though it was a weekday, the platform was congested with people. Some stood naively about and others, like myself, train-savvy, were waiting in the place where the train’s […]
Author: Kathleen Widdoes
Kathleen Widdoes has been an actress for many years in the theatre, television and film. She received a Tony nomination for ‘“Much Ado About Nothing,” three Obie awards for Off-Broadway performances in plays by Dumas, Chekhov and Brecht and received four Emmy nominations. She was Joe Papp’s first Juliet and played all the dark ladies of Shakespeare at The New York Shakespeare Festival. Some films include The Group and The Seagull. Kathleen is now a Reggio Student working towards a B.A. at The New School. As a poet and writer, she has been published in The New School’s The Twelfth Street Journal as the Writer of the Month and other publications. She lives in NYC.
COUNTRY COUSINS
Watch out for those girls. I know their types.Didn’t I come from the same small town?I know what they’re looking for, wearing their innocence fashionablyhidden, longing for the unknown, the forbidden.Watch out for those girls. I know their types. Scheming… dreaming if only they couldgive their souls away…they would,hoping to find what they are looking […]
I BROUGHT HER TULIPS
She was older, the woman I loved.I wore my suspenders low to hold my boyhood hidden. I followed her. “Come”, she said,“Let us walk through the streets and note the qualities of people.” “What sport is that?,” I asked – football fresh,fallen too short for baskets, breathless from biking, wild boy me. “O, don’t you know,” chided she.“You child, you – no Anthony! But you can […]