Marge Piercy Videos

Marge Piercy's Barbie Doll read by a robot who has chosen to remain nameless... Obviously this isn't me personally because, come on, I have way more facial piercings than that. :)

Marge Piercy reads her poem about the Patriot Act.

Marge Piercy reading "To be of use" at the Bershire Museum on August 15th, 2008 http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-be-of-use/ http://jwa.org/feminism/index.html?id=JWA056

iNSIDER PEEK AT WHAT'S COOKING IN MOTHER'S KITCHEN Your Mother Dances has never failed to bring provocative, intelligent, bawdy, graceful, sane, cutting-edge dance and supremely talented young dancers to Milwaukee. Artistic Director Elizabeth Johnson will present a new work, Constructed Woman Up Above (Ode for a Dakini) featuring timely and provocative Marge Piercy poems, inverted singing and groovily demanding dancing from Johnson and Company: Kelly Anderson, Paula Biasi, Susie Carlson, Michelle DiMeo, Jaimi Patterson, Katie Sopoci, and Christal Wagner. Kleenex boxes are the messy metaphor for expectations in a relationship in Johnson's Take My Box matching her again with her artistic and life partner in crime, Luc Vanier. The two will also dance Remind Me a collaborative collection of love snapshots to clever and cheerfully sentimental songs with lyrics penned by the singular and prolific female lyricist Dorothy Fields. Guest artists Anna Sapozhnikov (Artistic Director, Moyamo Dance--Chicago) and Erika Randall (Artistic Director, Erika Randall and Dancers--Boulder, CO) present their collaborative duet Sweetie Pie, an autobiographical romp through mother-daughter relationships explored through peculiar gesture, fully charged physicality, and text about mothers and pies to examine the ever-so-common and always painful struggle to cut the apron strings. Randall will also dance her quizzical solo, Self Defense to the philosophical styling of Eckhart Tolle and Sapozhnikov will perform Sara Hook's Valeska's Vitriol, a merrily confrontational and manic look at Valeska Gert, a bawdy satirist, actress, dancer and cabaret performer in Germany during the Weimar period. For this show, Your Mother Dances is trying a unique performance schedule with evening shows on Friday and Saturday May 9 & 10 at 7:30 PM, a late matinee Saturday May 10 at 4:00 PM, and a special Mother's Day Fundraiser Sunday, May 11 at 2:30 PM. Tickets for May 9 & 10 are: $15 seniors/students, $20 general, $25 reserved seating. Tickets for the Mother's Day Fundraiser are $45 with brunch and $35 without. Brunch at the Red Dot (2498 N. Bartlett, Milwaukee, non-smoking event) will begin at noon on the Patio. Patrons will check in with a Your Mother Dances representative the day of the fundraiser at the Red Dot to receive their brunch certificate and show ticket. The silent auction will be for events and services from hot local shops, restaurants, and body workers. Tickets for all shows including the fundraiser can be purchased at Danceworks: 1661 N. Water Street, Milwaukee, WI, on the web at: www.danceworks1661.org, or by calling the Danceworks Box Office at: (414) 277-8480.

This is a project for an English College Course. I realize that it is not of the greatest quality. But, give me a break, all I had to work with was Windows Movie Maker, Microsoft Paint, and a cell phone camera.

cornelia street cafe launch reading for Now & Later edited by Carly Sachs

This is a video interpretation done for class of "Barbie Doll", a poem by Marge Piercy. Barbie Doll This girlchild was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE stoves and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy, tested intelligent, possessed strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs. She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile and wheedle. Her good nature wore out like a fan belt. So she cut off her nose and her legs and offered them up. In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie. Doesn't she look pretty? everyone said. Consummation at last. To every woman a happy ending. Marge Piercy

Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches form an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq Dahr Jamail tells first hand of the reality of life under U.S. occupation. Part seven An inspirational poem by Marge Piercy, The Low Road

My hips are a desk, From my ears hang chains of paper clips. Rubber bands form my hair. My breasts are quills of mimeograph ink. My feet bear casters, Buzz. Click. My head is a badly organized file. My head is a switchboard where crossed lines crackle. Press my fingers and in my eyes appear credit and debit. Zing. Tinkle. My navel is a reject button. From my mouth issue canceled reams. Swollen, heavy, rectangular I am about to be delivered of a baby Xerox machine. File me under W because I wonce was a woman.

My hips are a desk, From my ears hang chains of paper clips. Rubber bands form my hair. My breasts are quills of mimeograph ink. My feet bear casters, Buzz. Click. My head is a badly organized file. My head is a switchboard where crossed lines crackle. Press my fingers and in my eyes appear credit and debit. Zing. Tinkle. My navel is a reject button. From my mouth issue canceled reams. Swollen, heavy, rectangular I am about to be delivered of a baby Xerox machine. File me under W because I wonce was a woman.

This girl child was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE ovens and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy, tested intelligent, possessed strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose and thick legs. She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile, and wheedle. Her good nature wore out like a fan belt. So she cut off her nose and legs and offered them up. In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie. Doesn't she look pretty? everyone said. Consummation at last. To every woman a happy ending.

This girl child was born as usual and presented dolls that did pee-pee and miniature GE ovens and irons and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy. Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said You have a great big nose and fat legs. She was healthy, tested intelligent, possessed strong arms and back, abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity. She went to and fro apologizing. Everyone saw a fat nose and thick legs. She was advised to play coy, exhorted to come on hearty, exercise, diet, smile, and wheedle. Her good nature wore out like a fan belt. So she cut off her nose and legs and offered them up. In the casket displayed on satin she lay with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on, a turned-up putty nose, dressed in a pink and white nightie. Doesn't she look pretty? everyone said. Consummation at last. To every woman a happy ending.

The videoclip covers from the start of the service (a) Introit - missing "How can we uphold god's law yet fairly extend God's mercy." (b) At the Opening - Hymn - We Sing to You O God (c) Opening Acclamation (d) The Collect for Purity (e) Song of Praise (sung) (f) A Collect of Silence (g) Meditation (Old Testament Scholar Phyllis Trible in "Wrestling with Scripture" (e) A Reading from the Book of Isaiah (43:16-21) by John Finegan (f) "Swear It" written by Marge Piercy and read by Dr. Hesse (g) A Reading from The Letter of Paul to the Phillippians (3:8-14) by Peg Borgstede and (h) singing of the hymn - On This Day of Celebration (hHmn to Joy). St. John's Episcopal Church is a charming growing small church with unusual services, including "dialogue sermons" led by (The Rev. Dr.) Rayner W. Hesse, Jr. Pastor, affectionately called "Rusty." The compelling services also feature an eclectic mix of songs and hymns, sung by the choir and led by the music director, Eric Jennings. Contact Frank Sisco at ideasmoney@aol.com for more info, and visit www.VideoVoom.com (under "Places" click "Churches" to go to the storyboard webpages of many services.) Also, email Frank to be added to the church's list for both postal mail and email of church notices of events and activities.

picture slideshow of Margaret Piercy