Wed, Dec 06
|Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse
Margaret Randall - A Birthday Retrospective
Eight of Margaret's friends will celebrate her prolific literary life by reading from her works. V. B. Price, Greg Smith, Lauren Camp, Billie Parker, Zach Hively, Sylvia Dorado, Michelle Otero, and Yesi Llerenas Daniel.
Date, Time & Location
Dec 06, 2023, 6:00 PM MST
Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store event and will be live streamed to Zoom, register here for Zoom.
Margaret Randall has lived an extraordinary life as a renowned feminist poet, writer, photographer, and social activist. Born in New York City in 1936, her life's path has included living in Seville, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua, with shorter stints in Peru and North Vietnam that profoundly influenced her. During the 1960s, she co-founded and co-edited the influential bilingual literary journal "EL CORNO EMPLUMADO / THE PLUMED HORN" in Mexico City and later taught at U.S. universities.
Margaret's early life was marked by interactions with New York's abstract expressionists, involvement with the Beats, engagement in the Mexican student movement of 1968, and living in Cuba and Nicaragua during pivotal moments in their histories.
She is the author of over 150 published books, with notable titles including her 2020 memoir, I Never Left Home,…