Feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist Margaret Randall will read from her new poems and talk about the writing process March 19 at noon at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Randall comes to the UNC campus as part of the Women’s Studies Colloquium Series. The talk will be in Room 039 of Graham Memorial Hall.
Born in New York City in 1936, Randall has lived for extended periods in Albuquerque, New York, Seville, Mexico City, Havana and Managua. During the turbulent 1960s, she co-founded and co-edited “El Corno Emplumado/The Plumed Horn,” a bilingual literary journal which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era.
She lived among New York’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s and early ’60s, participated in the Mexican student movement of 1968, and in her words, “shared important years of the Cuban revolution and the first four years of Nicaragua’s Sandinista project.”
She has published more than 80 books. Among Randall’s most recent titles are “As If the Empty Chair/Como si la silla vacia,” “Daughter of Lady Jaguar Shark,” and “The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones” (all poetry), “More Than Things” (essays) and “Che on My Mind” (a feminist poet’s impression of Che Guevara, recently published by Duke University Press).
Randall will also deliver the Anne Firor Scott Lecture at Duke University on March 18 at 4 p.m. in 107 White Lecture Hall. She will launch her book, “Che on My Mind,” at the Internationalist Bookstore and Community Center in Chapel Hill on March 20 at 7 p.m.
For more information, contact Ruth Salvaggio at (919) 962-5481.
