Occupation: Poet Birth: May 16, 1929 Death: March 27, 2012
If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?.
I am always interested in the ways of scoring the sound of the poem, especially a poem with long lines. Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes,….
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that ….
I came to explore the wreck..
Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an ….
I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other..
We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the ….
It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to t….
The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle..
The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the ….
... this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being.
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free..
In the middle-class United States, a veneer of "alternative lifestyles" disguises the reality that, here as everywhere, women's apparent "choices" wh….
I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also betw….
I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them..
I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but ….
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being..
But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds..
I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that the….
Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though it….
Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list them. I have always read a great de….