Piercy was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Bert (Bunnin) Piercy and Robert Piercy. Upon graduation from Mackenzie High School, Marge became the first in her family to attend college, studying at the University of Michigan. Winning a Hopwood Award for Poetry and Fiction (1957) enabled her to finish college and spend some time in France. She earned a M.A. from Northwestern University. Her first book of poems, Breaking Camp, was published in 1968.
An indifferent student in her early years, Piercy developed a love of books when she came down with rheumatic fever in her mid-childhood and could do little but read. "It taught me that there's a different world there, that there were all these horizons that were quite different from what I could see".
"Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third"
"The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved."
"It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover."
"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done."
"Never doubt that you can change history. You already have."
"Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats"
"It you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening"
"Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket"
"All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations."
"Shared laughter is erotic too"
"Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen."
I see you standing in the alleys and the hallway's Corner I'd love to get you but you vanish through the doorway And oh wow All it is to think about you I love everything about you Now I know you're real enough But my imagination is so stunned That I see you coming into view And your face is telling me that you Oh yeah oh, wanna be by my side Oh yeah oh, now it's finally time Mirage, that's all you are to me Mirage, something that I hardly see So I keep walking through the alleys and the hallways Where are you I keep remembering the kisses in the doorway And car too How it all comes back to me The movies ever Saturday And the places that we use to be I wish somehow to have that life Well it use to be [Chorus]
Photo...To Be of Use. By Marge Piercy. The people I love the best. jump into work head first. without dallying in the shallows ... but move in a common rhythm ... The poem shared above, “To Be of Use” by Marge Percy goes out in gratitude to Archuleta SeniorsInc.
Lynx, a tall ship with a Nantucket education partner, arrives on Cape ... 8, 2024. It left Nantucket at 8.30 a.m ... Her work has appeared in several poetry publications and in 2020 she won the Outermost Poetry Contest national award judged by Marge Piercy.
The poet Marge Piercy wrote that “The pitcher cries for water to carry/and a person for work that is real.” It may be that the way to stop the cycle of hopelessness — among poor whites and all others ...
We still have a way to go with that one ... Like Marge Piercy says in "To be of use".“The people I love the best jump into work headfirst without dallying in the shallows and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.” ... Now they were stranded ... Rev.
ReadingMarge Piercy's poem "To Be of Use" (track 2 onWhat Times Are These),. Jamie Baum. flute ... What Times Are These is a satisfying form of this sort ... Inspired by Bill Moyers' Poet a Day web project, she set poems by contemporary women. Piercy, Tracy K.
To be specific, seven of Baum’s ten compositions respond to works by a cohort of eminent 20 th and 21 st century female poets (Adrienne Rich, Marge Piercy, Tracy K.
He also leaves behind granddaughters Mazie Doss and JillianPorter, brothers Dale Porter and Gene Porter, and a sister Alice Piercy, as well as numerous cousins. He was preceded in death by parents George and Marge Porter ... Helens, Oregon ... ....
They are available at www.CCMoA.org/events ... Poet and contest judge Marge Piercy will be joined by local winning poets at a celebratory reading at the WellfleetPreservation Hall at 7 p.m ... Piercy will also read a selection of new poems at the event ... .
She’s the eponymous protagonist of Marge Piercy’s brilliant 1979 novel, Vida, and a character who affects me like few others ... (I have an unhappy feeling that Piercy, best known for her feminist sci-fi ...
11-year-old Sophie (FrankieCorio) is flopped on the hotel room bed after a long, sunsoaked day at the pool. She’s lost in thought ... “I don’t know ... A line from the Marge Piercy poem “My mother’s body” jumps to mind ... .
Saturday, March 11, at Bread & Roses Bookstore and Cafe, 302 Main St., Hyannis... with Keats” (Nixes Mate, 2021) ... She was featured in WCAI’s Poetry Sunday, and is the 2020 recipient of the Outermost Poetry Contest national award judged by Marge Piercy ... .
Cape Cod Times
27 Apr 2023
Cape Cod Times
27 Apr 2023