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Marge Piercy
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Oct 12, 2026
Sunu ChandyGUEST
So Audre Lorde, June Jordan, like, Poetry for the People.
Sunu ChandyGUEST
Also Marge Piercy is one of the first, like, the first poetry book anthology I had was Circles on the Water-
Katherine PetruccelliHOST
Hmm
Sunu ChandyGUEST
... by Marge Piercy.
Sunu ChandyGUEST
And we went to Earlham College and we opened a book, and it turned to To Be of Use, this poem by Marge Piercy that's just about sort of being out in the world and doing what you can to help.
Sunu ChandyGUEST
And it was, like, the perfect poem for myself and Jeffrey Perkins.
Sunu ChandyGUEST
We were PAGS, Peace and Global Studies majors.
Sunu ChandyGUEST
And it was just like, yes, I should buy this book.
Máire FisherGUEST
So it's just feeding into the feeling of the situation that you create for your character, and then I think you, you can get their voice.
Máire FisherGUEST
And another thing that I do, and I think it's, it's a, it's a good tip for writers generally, is ages ago I found a, a b- uh, what would you call it? A dossier, a character dossier in a book by Marge Piercy and Ira Levine, where they give you a list of, a stack of questions to ask or, or to write to create a character.
Máire FisherGUEST
You know, how old are they? What do they look like? Et cetera, et cetera.
Máire FisherGUEST
Which is all very well and very useful to have.
Penny PepperGUEST
I remember being very disappointed if I stumbled across it.
Penny PepperGUEST
It would nearly always be framing disabled people as the care receiver, and writers like Marge Piercy and, um, oh, dear, I'm having a memory blip.
Penny PepperGUEST
I think Andrea Dworkin, I think, would refer to disabled women, uh, and they, I think they're both American, so they, we would be called the handicapped woman or the handicapped girl.
Penny PepperGUEST
And I'm sure that the, it wasn't particularly meant, but the thought process didn't go beyond, so they were always the burden.
Amichai Lau-LavieHOST
The path opens before you, not because it was always there, but because you dared to walk it.
Amichai Lau-LavieHOST
This is a poetic fragment from American Jewish poet Marge Piercy, who helps us introduce this second episode of Aleph Bet.
Amichai Lau-LavieHOST
And today, all the places you'll go, just to quote another beloved mystic, Dr. Seuss.
Amichai Lau-LavieHOST
Aleph Bet I'm Amichal Aulavi, and welcome back to Aleph Bet, ancestral Jewish wisdom reimagined for right now.
Elizabeth AlexanderGUEST
And I think that there, you know, she's talking about what it means to really experience life firsthand, what it means to come in more proximity to each other, what it means to, I think, bear witness to life itself.
Brian LehrerHOST
Listener writes, Marge Piercy's To Be of Use.
Brian LehrerHOST
Another one, I'm inspired by the many symphonies of Gustav Mahler.
Brian LehrerHOST
Another one, Bach.
Susan GoldbergHOST
The poem is called The Low Road.
Susan GoldbergHOST
It's by Marge Piercy.
Susan GoldbergHOST
I don't think there's a big event where my Aunt Jackie would not share this poem and is beloved also by others in my family.
Susan GoldbergHOST
And I want to share an excerpt of it with you now, just an excerpt.
Susan GoldbergHOST
We begin tonight entering into Yom Kippur with dissolution.
Susan GoldbergHOST
We begin with the on-purpose release, the black zero of beginnings, as the poet Marge Piercy tells us about this time of year.
Susan GoldbergHOST
All vows are off.
Susan GoldbergHOST
all vows and prohibitions and oaths and consecrations and bans and terms and obligations, all of it that we vow and swear and devote and prohibit upon ourselves from this Yom Kippur until the next Yom Kippur, may it come to us for the good, l'tovah, regarding all of them, let them all be annulled, canceled, void.