Article Author: Marge Piercy
Trying to love Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant
April 1, 2015
First I will honor your name. Just as�those colonists first used, then abused�then tried to exterminate those whose�land they coveted, so you squat leering�at our homes, our bodies, our air… READ MORE
Welcome to post feminism and the left is obsolete
November 1, 2014
There is no oppression. Just lean�in to the corporate machine, become�part of its vast personhood. You too�every one of you can be a millionaire�if you just try harder, gaze upward…. READ MORE
Who has little, let them have less
January 1, 2014
� The hatred of the poor, is it guilt � gone rancid? That the rich have � so much and still conspire to steal � a baby’s medicine, a woman’s… READ MORE
What they call acts of god
May 1, 2013
� How gorgeous is the snow and deadly.�The roads are gone under its drifts.�Hundreds of thousands without power�in a frozen world where the wind�howls like a pack of coywolves. �… READ MORE
What it means
September 1, 2012
Unemployed: soon invisible,�after a while, unemployable,�unwanted, with your future�eroding along with confidence,�sense of self, the family�cracking along old fault lines.�And what do you do? Age. � Out of work: out… READ MORE
The poor are no longer with us; These bills are long unpaid
May 1, 2012
The poor are no longer with us � � No one’s poor any longer. Listen�to politicians. They mourn the middle�class which is shrinking as we watch�in the mirror. The poor… READ MORE
A hundred years since the Triangle Fire
April 1, 2011
On March 25, 1911, a fire spread through the seventh, eighth, and ninth floors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City’s Greenwich Village. The mostly immigrant workers, young… READ MORE
Workingclass nostalgia
September 1, 2010
I remember Detroit when it hummed with factories like an army of bees all day, all night. I remember downtown when it felt too fancy for us, Hudsons with window… READ MORE