
Margaret Randall: Photo by Juan Pérez

“Then I saw what the calling was :

it was the road I traveled”

- Muriel Rukeyser

My life and work have been profoundly informed by parents who gave me love and adventure, and encouraged creativity; the dramatic desert canyons, rich colors and open skies of the southwestern United States; Socialist ideals; the second wave of feminism; and the generous mentorship of many great friends and colleagues. My children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren are always with me, even when far away; and my spouse Barbara is bedrock. New York’s abstract expressionist painters in the 1950s, Mexico and her struggles of the 1960s, the Cuban revolution’s second brave decade in the 1970s, the Vietnamese people’s struggle against US attack and occupation in that same decade, and the Sandinista attempt to change Nicaragua in the early 1980s were places and events that shaped me. The exploration of ancient sites continues to be a source of nourishment, and I have long been involved with oral tradition. I deeply believe in humanistic values, combating our culture of violence and greed, and art as a tool for change. I invite you to enter my website, learn about my books, read my poetry and look at my photographic images.

next events

"Precarious Future / Troubled Past / Ethical Return" conference at Macalester College, St. Paul Minnesota Thursday, March 5, 7-9 p.m.: Weyerhauser Boardroom: Screening of "The Unapologetic Life of Margaret Randall". Q & A with Margaret and filmmaker Lu Lippold. Friday March 6, 7-9 p.m. Weyerhauser Boardroom: Talks by Bimbola Akinbola and Margaret Randall. Saturday March 7 4-6 p.m: Centro de Trabajadores Unidos en la Lucha, Minneapolis. Launch of Margaret’s memoir, I NEVER LEFT HOME: POET, FEMINIST, REVOLUTIONARY.
7 March, by Margaret Randall
PEACE BUZZ 2020! 17 years after the first Peace Buzz, the Answer Coalition will sponsor a look back at the anti-war movement in Albuquerque to give the current movement inspiration and context and to join us in intergenerational resistence. Poets Mary Oishi, Demetria Martinez, Don McIver, Margaret Randall, and others. The Guild Theater, 3405 Central Avenue NE, Albuquerque
22 March, by Margaret Randall
Beyond Borders presents Hostile Terrain 94 - A Community Collaboration Event SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
29 March, by Margaret Randall

Beyond Borders presents Hostile Terrain 94: A Community Collaboration Event
Sunday, Mar 29, 2020, 12pm-4pm at SITE Santa Fe
Through a guided exercise, the Beyond Borders partners invite you to contribute to the Hostile Terrain 94 exhibit by dedicating a few minutes to complete tags necessary for its installation. Drop in anytime across the afternoon to see Displaced and help complete a unique set of individual tags. This project is a collaboration between SITE Santa Fe, the School for Advanced Research, and the Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe. This program will begin with a 20-minute reading of by poems for the disappeared of Latin America from AS IF THE EMPTY CHAIR / COMO SI LA SILLA VACIA by poet Margaret Randall. Margaret Randall (New York, 1936) is a poet, essayist, oral historian, translator, photographer and social activist. She lived in Latin America for 23 years (in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua).
AN EVENING WITH MARGARET RANDALL Brazos Bookstore, 2421 Bissonenet Street, Houston, Texas
31 March, by Margaret Randall
Santa Fe launch of I NEVER LEFT HOME: POET, FEMINIST, REVOLUTIONARY. Margaret will read from her memoir, talk about its process, and converse with audience Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo Street, Santa Fe, NM.
6 April, by Margaret Randall

THE NATIONAL ECONOMY / ECONOMÍA NACIONAL

Rodríguez Santana writes with beauty, truth, and sadness of an economic disaster that nearly destroyed his country’s revolution. His work is an elegy, and a eulogy, for Cuba’s sugar industry penned with courageous honesty by a remarkable poet. Anyone who has ever loved, and relied upon, the hope expressed by the Cuban revolution will no doubt feel hurt by these difficult words. Yet within Rodríguez Santana’s forlorn vision and testament, lives an artist who deeply admires his country and is (...)

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"Las lineas de su mano" Poetry Festival named me Dean of Contemporary Poetry
8 September 2019, by Margaret Randall
Espejos cortados a la medida
8 September 2019, by Margaret Randall
POET OF TWO HEMISPHERES PRIZE, Paralelo Cero Poetry Festival
30 May 2019, by Margaret Randall
HAYDEE SANTAMARIA MEDAL
30 May 2019, by Margaret Randall
Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of New Mexico
13 May 2019, by Margaret Randall