Paterson (Don’t Miss This)
Mother’s Day is one of those holidays. It doesn’t mean much. it’s Hallmarkish. It should be All Women’s Day. Or All Everyone’s Day...
Author: Esther Cohen
Let me tell you why I'm here, and why I hope you'll join me.
I am here to poem, to play with words, to tell stories when I can, and to ask you for yours. Words are what I love, how I see, and what I say. Words are how I know my life, and how I find my friends. I'm here to ask you to join me. Right here. To send me your stories, and your poems. And to read mine when you can.
Mothers, Grandmothers and ME
Very happy to be ON BEING BLOG again with a piece from MY WRITING GROUP (Breena Clarke and Cheryl Clarke my only writing group EVER). The pictures of Anna Soroc...
The Price of Nice Nails
what we all knew in today’s New York Times women in nail parlors 17,000 nail parlors there are 11 on ten blocks near my apartment they are exploited no re...
Dear Maria
Dear Maria, You come to clean our apartment every other Tuesday and you’ve been coming for years. I wonder if the way I feel about your coming here is som...
Clara Lemlich Awards
Every year Labor Arts and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Committee host an event a wonderful event, honoring lifetime women activists. Women who keep figh...