Bonita Summers

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Member of Canadian Federation of Poets

Writing since the age of 8, Bonita Summers became a journalist and freelance writer/editor in her 20's and 30's, and an administrator at Queen’s University in her 40's. At midlife, she returned to her love of poetry, performing as a regular at Kingston, Ontario's ‘Poetry & Company’. Bonita produced a book, Woman with the Flying Mind, a self-published autobiography in poetry as inspiration for women overcoming abuse.

Woman with the Flying Mind has sold at ‘Fanfayr’ in Kingston, Ontario and at the ‘Kingston Women's Art Festival’ - both juried events - raising $1000 for Kingston Interval House. In 2006, Bonita participated in ‘Random Acts of Poetry’, emceed a Kingston Interval House concert, and helped to organize Kingston’s first dub poetry festival, ‘Reloading the Can(n)on’. Subsequently, she was invited to Toronto in May of 2007 to participate in the Dub Poetry Series put on by the Dub Poets’ Collective.

In 2007, she took on the administration of ‘Poetry & Company’. In June 2007, at Market Square in Kingston, Ontario, Bonita emceed the launch of ‘Scapes: Poetry & Company, A Kingston Community Anthology, in which her dub-inspired piece, Electronic Junkie is published.

Presently, Bonita is compiling an anthology on grandmothers and working on her next book as part of the North Shore Series for Hidden Brook Press.

"Woman with the Flying Mind" chronicles Bonita's experiences with overcoming abuse, illustrating how life's difficult moments can be the ones from which we learn the most about ourselves.

A blend of topical humour, social commentary, and spiritual awakening, "Woman with the Flying Mind" is sure to resonate within the hearts of its readers.

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