Bonnie S. Kaplan
Bonnie S. Kaplan was born and raised in Los Angeles. She holds an MFA with High Distinction from the California College of the Arts in film/video/performance art.
Selected Publications
Women in a Golden State, (Gunpowder Press, 2025)
TAB Journal, Vol. 11.4 (2023)
Room Magazine, Canada (2021)
Sinister Wisdom 119 (2021)
Bellevue Literary Review (2021)
Closet Cases, Queers on What We Wear (Et Alia Press, 2020)
Northridge Review (2019)
The San Diego Poetry Annual (2015)
Out of Sequence: The Sonnets Remixed (Upstart Journal, Clemson University, 2014)
*82 Review 2.2 (2014)
This Assignment is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013)
Adrienne Rich: A Tribute Anthology (Split Oak Press, 2012)
and online in Nature of Our Times, Poetry Walk,City of West Hollywood. Cultural Weekly, and Medmic,
Her poem, "Mastectomy, Simple" was a 2021 finalist for the Marica and Jan Vilcek Poetry Prize at Bellevue Literary Review.
Her chapbook, "Where I Live Now," was selected by Smith College and Nine Syllables Press as a semi-finalist 2023.
Seers
She slides the wand
inside my mother’s belly, ovaries long expired.
The sonographer is pregnant.
My mom predicts
the sonographer will have a boy. She’s sure of this
without transmission gel.
A radiologist assures
my mom the ovary in question is harmless, that lack
of growth is good.
Three years later, my mom
bumps into the sonographer at the car wash
who holds up her young son
to peer through glass
at cars being scrubbed, as if by magic
driving themselves.