AUTHOR

An award-winning poet, novelist,
journalist, and best-selling author.

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Robin Morgan - Early Career - Abbott and Costello

EARLY
CAREER

By 1945, she had
her own nationally
syndicated radio
program.

She was four.

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An award-winning poet, novelist, journalist, activist, and best-selling author, Robin Morgan has published more than 20 books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.

Her 1970 anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful has been widely credited with helping to start the contemporary feminist movement, and was cited by the New York Public Library as “one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th century.”

Recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Prize (Poetry) among other honors, and former Editor-in-Chief of Ms. Magazine, she founded the Sisterhood Is Global Institute, and co-founded (with Jane Fonda and Gloria Steinem) the Women’s Media Center. She currently writes and hosts WMC Live with Robin Morgan, a syndicated weekly radio program with a national and international audience in 110 countries around the world.

Robin Morgan’s Latest Posts

  • A few weeks ago, in the season finale podcast for "Women's Media Center Live with Robin Morgan," I said that although we were going on hiatus until September, in case of unusual news I would return with Special Commentary. Well! This past week or so certainly has given us unusual, even historic, news. So here is that commentary.

  • Moving fighting words this week from a conversation on police brutality to Black women to the Middle East isn't a disruption really, since the same principles apply: structural supremacies, power colluding with power over the heads of the disenfranchised/dispossessed who are being silenced; power accruing to power and powerlessness to powerlessness, in an endless repetitive circle; all of it disguised by the usual banalities that manage to be boring as well as lethal at the same time.

  • This was the biggest land-grab in history . . .

Poetry

Harvesting Darkness

Robin Morgan’s latest collection is a tour-de force—poetry that thrills the intellect and stirs the emotions.

Fiction

Parallax

“The more I read, the more I did not want to stop. I loved the mixture of frame and stories. This is vintage Morgan.” —Ursula K. Le Guin

Nonfiction

Fighting Words

Combat the rhetoric of the religious right with Fighting Words—the Little Red (and White and Blue) Book for reclaiming our country.

Anthologies

Sisterhood Is Powerful

It all began with Sisterhood Is Powerful—the collection that’s been called “the primer that started the modern Women’s Movement.”

“The simple fact of choosing one’s clothes becomes a political semaphore. Silkscreened T-shirts pay homage to the literary works of Robin Morgan, the American feminist poet, with elements from Sisterhood is Powerful (1970), Sisterhood is Global (1984) and Sisterhood is Forever (2003), which celebrate the concept of sorority.”

—Dior

ACTIVISM

From the first significant public action of contemporary feminism to her time as Editor In Chief at Ms. Magazine and beyond, Robin Morgan has been a major presence in the international Women’s Movement for more than 35 years.

EARLY CAREER

A national radio and network television star, beginning at the age of four. A role that made her a household name at age seven. Named “The Ideal American Girl” by the National Federation of Women’s Clubs. This was how it began.